Chilling, glitzy and dark
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi \u2013 Andrew Scull on the deeply unsettling \u2013 and surprisingly recent \u2013 history of lobotomy, and the sorry tale of Patient H. M.; Lisa Hilton on the sometimes mystifying appeal of the French Riviera and the vapid aristocrats who holidayed there; Kate Symondson on an all but forgotten novel by Joseph Conrad and a clutch of new books that scrutinize his philosophical and political scepticism \u2013 a man for our times?
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