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Blessed Are The Fatties That Repent

Patrick Skene Catling BIG IS INVISIBLE by Belinda Charlton Robin Clark, £7.95 S olomon admired a 'belly like a heap of wheat,' and Middle Eastern standards of feminine physical......

Yesterday's Men Revisited

Andrew Gimson THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT, 1974-79: POLITICAL AIMS AND ECONOMIC REALITY by Martin Holmes Macmillan, £25 THATCHER: THE FIRST TERM by Patrick Cosgrove Bodley Head, £9.95......

Handel's English Handlers

Peter Phillips HANDEL AND HIS WORLD by H. C. Robbins Landon Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.95 HANDEL by Christopher Hogwood Thames & Hudson, £12.95 HANDEL: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC by......