with Richard Mayne
Victoria's Heyday, J. B. Priest lev's illustrated portrait of the 1850s; a new edition of H. G. Wells 's famous ' plain history of life and mankind.' The Outline of History; and a paperback biography of Karl Marx. A. s. BYATT looks at new fiction. And other new books, including the story of the British Museum
Producers MICHAEL HEFFERNAN and KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND