18 JANUARY 1997, page 34

Not Just One Story After Another

Joshua Rey THE LADY WITH THE LAPTOP by Clive Sinclair Picador, £12.99, pp. 183 by a book of short stories? Granted, after reading Forster's novels it's interest- ing to see what......

The Last Time I Saw Paris . . .

Main de Botton LE DIVORCE by Diane Johnson Chatto, £14.99, pp. 308 A s the interior decorators of the Dome and Café Rouge restaurants have discovered, it isn't hard to evoke a......

No Need For Invasion Yet

Norman Stone DEMOCRATIC ROYALISM: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY, 1861-1914 by William M. Kuhn Macmillan, £35, pp. 180 T he only way to get an English bureau- cracy......