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Where There's A Will . . .

Simon Baker SHAKESPEARE by Bill Bryson HaiperPress, £14.99, pp. 200, ISBN 9780007197898 © £11.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 SHAKESPEARE'S WIFE by Germaine Greer Bloomsbury,......

The Language Of Mathematics

Alexander Masters THE POINCARE CONJECTURE: IN SEARCH OF THE SHAPE OF THE UNIVERSE by Donal O'Shea Allen Lane, £17.99, pp. 292, ISBN 9781846140129 £14.39 (plus £2.45 p+p) 0870......

Whitewater Rafting

Bone-domed, wet-suited, that New Zealand day, six of us in a dinghy diced with death. Twenty-five rapids made us hold our breath. The snowmelt river took our breath away. Eleven......