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Lights! Camera! Fiction!
A hundred years ago the job of screenwriter didn't exist in the early film business; today the script is the keystone of movie production
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Paragons of bad faith
A Dangerous Liaison
Carole Seymour-Jones Century, 392pp, £20
Rock’n’roll heroines
Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller Ebury Press, 592pp, £18.99
Victorian voyages
A Corkscrew Is Most Useful
Nicholas Murray Little, Brown, 544p, £25
After the sugar rush
Rum: a Social and Sociable History
Ian Williams Nation Books, 340pp, £9.99
Brush up your Shakespeare
I have an almost fatal risk gene in my makeup. It seemed folly to take this on having never read or seen the play. But soon I was sharing the director's enthusiasm measure for measure
Promises and betrayals
Seven Pillars of Wisdom was hailed on its first appearance as a historical and literary masterpiece. But, argues Robert Fisk, this memoir of the Arab revolt, and T E Lawrence's other writings, also offer prescient warnings about western policy in the Middle East
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Old Spanish practices
Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Henry Kamen
Yale University Press, 240pp, £25
Rich and strange
Walter Rothschild: the Man, the Museum and the Menagerie
Miriam Rothschild
Natural History Museum, 432pp, £9.99
