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Books

The state of the fiction Paul Ableman The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus £5.50): Winner of the 1978 Booker Prize for Fiction The short-list for-the Prize also......

Opium Of Scientists

Andrew Boyle The Visible College Gary Werskey (Allen Lane 210.00) 'One man's socialism is the next man's heresy', runs the old saw. Among radical scientists in twentieth-century......