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Books

Sins of the Fathers Ferdinand Mount THE BODY AND SOCIETY: MEN, WOMEN AND SEXUAL RENUNCIATION IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Peter Brown Faber, 82.50, pp.504 B ishop Felix of Nantes,......

Ghosts

Our genes are ghosts condemned to immortality; Re-incarnated, they drift on after we die, Preserving the colours, contours, benchmarks of the race, The nose, the chin, the......

The Voice Of The Turtle

Anne Chisholm LILLY: REMINISCENCES OF LILLIAN HELLMAN by Peter Feibleman Chatto & Windus, £14.95, pp.364 N ot long ago Lillian Hellman was widely admired both as a writer and as......