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A Star Among Star-gazers

Steve King THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: THE BRIEF, BRILLIANT LIFE OF JEREMIAH HORROCKS by Peter Aughton Weidenfeld, £18.99, pp. 210, ISBN 029784721X tir eremiah Horrocks is more famous......

Who Is Laughing At Whom?

Olivia Glazebrook COOKING WITH FERNET-BRANCA by James Hamilton-Paterson Faber, £10.99, pp. 296, ISBN 05712200908 D octor Johnson's excellent recipe for cucumber: 'a cucumber......