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Shopping for gods Raymond Carr THE CONVERSION OF EUROPE by Richard Fletcher HarperCollins, £25, pp.550 cp rofessional historians today', Richard Fletcher writes, 'are expected......

Adrift In The Male Doldrums

Anita Brookner WOMEN WITH MEN by Richard Ford Harvill, f14.99, pp. 255 R ichard Ford's heroes, markedly _unheroic, live through a series of glum but sweet-natured intentions,......