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Books

With a knowing ignorance Philip Hensher THE QUEEN OF CAMP: MAE WEST, SEX AND POPULAR CULTURE by Marybeth Hamilton Pandora, £9.99, pp. 278 F rst,' as Stephen Sondheim has it in......

Seeking And Finding Asylum

Nick Dent UNHOLY GHOSTS by Ita Daly Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 224 Y ou haven't got a very good memo- ry, Anto, but then being a psychiatrist you wouldn't have to, would you? It's......