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Padlocks And Plum Cake

Jonathan Keates THE HISTORY OF BETHLEM by Jonathan Andrews, Asa Briggs, Roy Porter, Penny Tucker, and Keir Waddington Routledge, £150, pp. 768 L et those who mourn the passing......

Does Your End Justify Your Genes?

Andrew Brown LIFELINES by Steven Rose Allen Lane, £20, pp. 335 W here once people believed in Destiny or a God that shaped their ends, they now believe in genes. In Penelope......