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The Inventor Of Night Starvation

William Scammell NORMAN CAMERON: COLLECTED POEMS edited by Warren Hope and Jonathan Barker Anvil Press, £14.95, pp. 160 A n almost impenetrable discretion surrounds both life......

The Sparks That Glowed

Nicholas Mosley MEMOIRS A ndrei Sakharov's life was of the stuff which makes legends — and makes them effective. Growing up in Russia at a time when there was starvation,......