It is published on 25 March the official publication date of Roses

It is published on 25 March, the official publication date of Roses from the Earth.Thirdly, there is The Story of Anne Frank published by Macmillan two weeks after its rivals. Its author, Mirjam Pressler, has "impeccable credentials", according to the publisher. "There could hardly be anyone better placed to write a biography of Anne Frank than Mirjam Pressler: as a Jewish woman living in contemporary Germany; as the translator of The Diary of Anne Frank from Dutch into German; as the editor who, with Otto Frank, compiled the new expanded Definitive Edition of the Diary."Unlike the others, Pressler does not address the question of the Frank family's betrayer, an omission of which Macmillan is proud. "That is not something we would countenance," said a spokeswoman.

"It seems to be almost a diversion."Viking is keeping Lee's book under lock and key prior to serialisation in a national newspaper. However, a source who obtained a copy said yesterday: "There's nothing new in it. The angle is `who betrayed Anne Frank?', but Lee doesn't come up with a new answer. She just reiterates a suspicion which is in Anne Frank's diary."Professor Nussbaum said yesterday that she had not seen Lee's book - and was disinclined to do so "[Lee] quoted me from a Dutch newspaper clipping. She latched on to a section [of the article] where there were a few mistakes. She never bothered to contact me, so don't take her too seriously. She could have found me, after all."The Macmillan biography is given equally short shrift by Professor Nussbaum Of Pressler, she said: "This is an author I really distrust Her so-called Definitive Edition (of the Diary) is terrible Even the fact that it is called `definitive' is aggravating.

This term is just a sales gimmick."Indeed, in Professor Nussbaum's view, the Bloomsbury biography by Melissa Muller is the only one worth bothering with "Unlike Lee, she took the trouble to interview me. Unlike Pressler she has tried to emphasise Anne's writership.". LIFE AS A dinosaur wasn't just a walk in Jurassic Park. They may have struck terror into the hearts of those lower down the food chain, but all those crashing meteorites, volcanic eruptions and frequent climatic changes frayed the nerves of even the mightiest Tyrannosaurus Rex. Analysis of 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg shells now suggests prehistoric creatures could, in fact, have done with hugs of reassurance and that they were just as stressed out as any modern-day commuter. The research is based on the fact that some dinosaur eggs are "double- shelled", a recognised sign of stress in the eggs of modern animals, such as turtles, crocodiles and chickens.

Scientists are now speculating that stress was a factor in the death of the dinosaurs - or that it was symptomatic of the apocalyptic event which wiped them out 65 million years ago.Scientists in Glasgow and Montana in the US have carried out research showing that the eggs of a small dinosaur called Troodon formosus, which lived around 76 million years ago, displayed similar signs of stress to those exhibited by turtles which have been subjected to human interference and pollution."The phenomenon of double egg shells is not restricted to modern-day birds. It also existed in dinosaurs," says Professor Sally Solomon, of the poultry research unit of Glasgow University's Veterinary School, which carried out the research.The findings have been backed by Dr Angela Milner, head of fossils and vertebrates at the Natural History Museum in London. "It's fair to say that if you see abnormalities in the eggs of modern birds like chickens you can expect the abnormalities to arise for the same reasons in dinosaurs," she says.Scientists liken egg shells to fingerprints because of the detail they can provide about the environment in which they were laid. They have learned that chickens and turtles delay laying their eggs in times of danger, allowing an extra layer of calcium - or a double shell - to be formed."We know dinosaurs held on to their eggs for longer than they should have. So we can wonder at what the environmental factors were that caused them to do that," says Prof Solomon.

"And what contribution that fact made to the end of a species."Double-shelled eggs are widely known to be formed by turtles as a result of stress and pollution, says Prof Solomon. "Marine turtles come ashore during the hours of darkness to lay their eggs but in some parts of the world this magnificent act of mother nature has become something of a tourist attraction."Turtles are not used to an audience. A haunt of students from the Beaux Arts school since the beginning of the century, this was another favourite of Sartre and de Beauvoir. The cafe was also a favourite meeting-place for Paris's many literary emigres, such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Beckett.Walk around to the back of the church that lends its name to the square and then turn left down rue de Seine, crossing boulevard Saint- Germain, until you come to another cafe, La Palette.