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The Cutting Edge Of Medicine

Jane Ridley T HE K NIFE M AN by Wendy Moore Bantam, £18.99, pp. 482, ISBN 0593052099 ✆ £16.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I n 1767, John Hunter, a 39-year-old surgeon,......

The Frozen, Unruly North

Joanna Kavenna T HEATRE OF F ISH by John Gimlette Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 367, ISBN0091795192 ✆ £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 J ohn Gimlette is a writer of vivid comical......

A Master Shrouded By Mist

Ferdinand Mount C AMPO S ANTO by W. G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp. 228, ISBN 0241142776 ✆ £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 A t the end of......