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THE MIDDLE YEARS OF DORIS LESSING BIOGRAPHY BONANZA: John Banville examines Newton

Diana Souhami unveils the Mistress of Montmartre Patrick Marnham on Camus * Jonathan Keates on Hugo William St Clair on Keats * Kathryn Hughes on Austen

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SOUTH AFRICA: Sampson and Mandela Coetzee's Boyhood * Dervla Murphy on her bike FOREIGNERS: Fuentes's Mexico * Paul Johnson's American People and Richard Dowden on the African Continent POLITICIANS: Andrew Roberts on Churchill's Secret Service Mack Smith on two Mussolinis * Tariq Ali on Mrs T's Speeches

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