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Kill Or Cure

Elisabeth Whipp The Cancer Reference Book Paul M. Levitt and Elissa S. Guralnick (Paddington £4.95) Cancer: Myths and Realities of Cause and Cure M. L. Kothari and L. A. Mehta......

Daydreaming

Benny Green Test Time at Tillingfold John Parker (Weidenfeld £4.95) In 1924 the novelist Hugh de Selincourt hit on the idea of deploying the structure of a Village cricket match......