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The Writer's Fruit

William Boyd ORANGES by John McPhee Penguin Classics, £6.99, pp. 149 E ery morning of the year — well, almost every morning of the year — I select four oranges, which have been......

The High Ridges Of Knowledge

John Fowles NABOKOV'S BU ITERFLIES edited by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pye Allen Lane, £25, pp. 760 I was, some time ago, asked to contribute to a book on Vladimir Nabokov......