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Seeking An Audience Of Cheerful Angels

P. D. James DOROTHY L. SAYERS: HER LIFE AND SOUL by Barbara Reynolds Hodder, 125, pp. 398 T here are writers who hold such a perennial fascination for biographers that they are......

Nature Is Sometimes Overcome, Often Extinguished

Oliver Rackham THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE by Edward 0. Wilson Allen Lane, £22.50, pp. 424 s a boy I read Rachel Carson's won derful book, The Sea Around Us. It intro- duced me to the......