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Nothing To Do With Me

Eric Jacobs THE BIOGRAPHER'S MOUSTACHE by Kingsley Amis Flamingo, £9.99, pp. 282 K ingsley Amis's new novel is about an elderly literary chap having his biography written by a......

Good German, But Not A Good Mann

Piers Paul Read THOMAS MANN: A LIFE by Donald Prater OUP, £20, pp. 554 I n the opening to Chapter Six of Tonio Kroger, Thomas Mann notes that his hero travelled in comfort, for......

Books

Cutting Europe down to size Eric Christiansen MILLENNIUM by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Bantam, £25, pp. 758 I t is most inconvenient to review a book that cannot be held in the......