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Homage To Naomi

Robert Oakeshott THE NINE LIVES OF NAOMI MITCHISON by Jenni Calder Virago, £20, pp. 340 Wisaw I t was on the train between Livingstone and Lusaka, in far away Zambia, that I......

Portrait Of A Novelist

Ra Page THE NYMPHOMATION by Jeff Noon Doubleday, £15.99, pp. 362 S trictly speaking, Jeff Noon doesn't write novels, he paints them. Sampling and blending ideas from the......