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Books

Why can't they write better novels? Timothy Mo TRAVELLER'S LITERARY COMPANION: SOUTH EAST ASIA edited by Alastair Dingwall In Print Publishing, 9 Beaufort Terrace, Brighton, BN2......

All Under The Influence Now

Frank Prochaska THE MONARCHY AND THE CONSTITUTION by Vernon Bogdanor OUP, £19.99, pp. 328 M onarchs may be made, as Shaw quipped, 'by universal hallucination', but in an age of......