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His Life Forever Amber

Janet Barron THE MARRIAGE OF TIME AND CONVENIENCE by Robert Winder Harvil4 £14.99, pp. 224 t certain moments in our lives, we become all too well aware of the inexorable fact......

Reducing All That's Made

John Cornwell THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS: THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE SOUL by Francis Crick Simon & Schuster, £16.99, pp. 384 It is characteristic of ageing brain scientists......