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KILLING MRLEBANON by Nicholas Blandford I.B. Tauris, £17.99, pp. 236, ISBN 1845112024 . £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Rafik Hariri was Lebanon's bulldozer. A buccaneer. A bruiser. Built [...]

John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman Simon & Schuster, 25 £, pp. 512, ISBN 978439199589 Spectator Bookshop, 20 £ I'm not making a picture [The Green Berets] [...]

Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Bodley Head, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 310, ISBN 9781847921086 He was a Persian aristocrat who struggled to make his country a democracy. Given [...]

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullogh Simon & Schuster, 25 £, pp. 560, ISBN 9781416571766 Of all the cities in all the world, Paris dominates the American [...]

Twenty-five years ago, in a windowless Levantine oubliette, my wrist and ankle were bound with chains, but my imagination soared. Among my many daydreams was a reunion a quarter-century hence. [...]

Sir: Reading Jeffrey Meyers's thoughts on Kim Philby ('A traitor's library', 6 August), and whether Graham Greene was right to remain loyal to him or David Cornwell to detest him, [...]

When the sun lowers itself into the Pacific Ocean, west of California, it has a way of lingering on the horizon that makes you imagine it will stay for ever. [...]

When the sun lowers itself into the Pacific Ocean, west of California, it has a way of lingering on the horizon that makes you imagine it will stay for ever. [...]

For the sixth time in as many months, a woman has cancelled our dinner. In and of itself, a cancelled dinner is a trifle. The cancellations themselves were less surprising [...]