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Trenchant But Tendentious

Ronald Segal SOUTH AFRICA: THE FIRST MAN, THE LAST NATION by R. W. Johnson Weidenfeld, £16.99, pp. 241, ISBN 0297646729 (t) £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 R . W.......

How Sausages Are Made

John Bayley TIIE SEVEN BASIC PLOTS: WIIY WE TELL STORIES by Christopher Booker Continuum, 125, pp. 728, ISBN 0826452094 T he seven stars are seven because they are not eight;......

Cooking The Books

Noble Frankland IN COMMAND OF HISTORY by David Reynolds Penguin/Allen Lane, 130, pp. 6451. ISBN 0713998199 £26 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 C hurchill conceded that the......