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Solitude

Picture it. Across sputtering wavelengths other suns with satellites bobbing like dumplings glimmer, whirr, flash and finally blow like reading-lamp bulbs on verandahs in the......

Scholarship And Fees Richly Deserved

Rupert Scott BERNARD BERENSON: THE MAKING OF A LEGEND by Ernest Samuels Harvard University Press, £19.95 T wenty-eight years after his death the popular reputation of Bernard......

Thousands Of Years Of Long Toes

Anne Chisholm SARUM by Edward Rutherfurd Century Hutchinson, £9.95 0 n the first page of this mammoth historical saga about life in and around Salisbury, it is very cold and......