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The French Disconnection

Robbie Millen MY PHANTOM HUSBAND by Marie Darrieussecq Faber, £9.99, pp. 153 I t has not been a glorious century for the French. The Dreyfus Affair, Verdun, the Fall of Paris,......

A God Without A Toothbrush

Jane Gardam JESUS: AUTHORS TAKE SIDES edited by Richard Ingrams HarperCollins, £16.99, pp. 186 S eated one Easter day at the organ, R ichard Ingrams became convinced of the......

The Soul Of Man Under Socialism

David Caute PROPERTY AND FREEDOM by Richard Pipes Hamill, £22.50, pp. 352 A remarkable proportion of end-of- century political thought carries a lingering odour of mid-century......