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Where Once There Was No Time

Emma Tennant ROAD TO THE ISLES by Derek Cooper Macmillan, £16.99, pp, 247, ISBN 0333901002 0 n the occasion of my first — and only visit to the Hebrides in 1963 I found many of......

Losing The Thread Of Life

Nicholas Harman THE FORGETTING: UNDERSTANDING ALZHEIMER'S by David Shenk HarperCollins, £15.99, pp. 290, ISBN 0002571749 D can Swift, the master of despair, pretty certainly had......