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Not At Liberty To Choose

Peter J. M. Wayne THE PRISONERS' HANDBOOK, 1995 by Mark Leech OUP, £30, £9.99, pp. 465 D uring a brief period of freedom last year, I was invited to speak at a 'Roots of Crime'......

But The Malady Lingers On

Carole Angier SUMMER PLAGUE by Tony Gould Yale, £19.95, pp. 366 A s Tony Gould says in his opening line, polio is now (or seems now) a conquered, forgotten disease in Europe.......