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The Man Who Fell In Love With A Table

John Gross UNCLE TUNGSTEN by Oliver Sacks Picador, £17.99, pp. 336, ISBN 0330390279 hen Oliver Sacks was a boy, one of his teachers wrote in an end-of-term report: 'Sacks will......

Swimming Against Or With The Tide

Peregrine Worsthorne LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN by Christopher Hitchens Perseus Press, £16.99. pp. 141, ISBN 1903985064 A nything written by Christopher Hitchens is worth......

Men

behavi ng badly P. J. Kavanagh IT'S NOT CRICKET by Simon Rae Faber, £14.99, pp. 297, ISBN 05 71201814 BAT, BALL AND BOUNDARY compiled by Shelley Klein Michael O'Mara, £8.99. pp.......