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Fact Or Fiction

Katie Grant THE ALL-TRUE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LIDIE NEWTON by Jane Smiley Flamingo, £17.99, pp. 452 C omparisons, I know, are odious. How- ever, when a book never quite......

An Odd Couple

John Grigg SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES: THE PERSONAL LETIVRS OF WINSTON AND CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL edited by Mary Soames Doubleday, £25, pp. 702 W ith very rare exceptions, men of......