Chilling, glitzy and dark

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 12:10 a.m.

b'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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