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Marriage à La Mode

Nicholas Haslam T AKE A G IRL L IKE M E by Diana Melly Chatto, £14.99, pp. 280, ISBN 0701179066 ✆ £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I t is surely rare to find a book that......

From The Inside Looking Out

Peter J. M. Wayne D EATH AT THE H ANDS OF THE S TATE by David Wilson Howard League for Penal Reform, £12.95, pp. 143, ISBN 0903683784 C onsider this. Does lightning ever strike......