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Feisty Renaissance Woman

Alan Wall THE BIRTH OF VENUS by Sarah Dunant Little, Brown, £12.99, pp. 412, ISBN 0316725498 W hat is it that the contemporary writer brings to historical fiction? Well, we've......

Concentrating On The Sounds

Jonathan Keates BEETHOVEN: THE MUSIC AND THE LIFE by Lewis Lockwood Norton, 128, pp. 604. ISBN 0393050815 F or composers nothing has ever been quite the same since Beethoven......