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You Can't Keep A Good Chemist Down

Nigel Spivey FORCE OF NATURE: THE LIFE OF LINUS PAULING by Tom Hager Simon & Schuster, £25, pp. 608 L inus Pauling won his first Nobel prize, for Chemistry, in 1954 — the same......

East, West, Mum's Best Francis King

ADMIRING SILENCE by Abdulrazak Gurnah Hamish Hamilton, £16, pp. 224 A the start of this novel, its unnamed narrator — like its author, a native of Zanzibar — displays all the......

The Plays Were The Thing

William Gaskill THE REAL LIFE OF LAURENCE OLIVIER by Roger Lewis Century, EZ99, pp. 272 T he author of this book apparently had some success with a similar work on Peter......