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An Innocent, But Not At Home

Patrick Marnham HALF A LIFE by V. S. Naipaul Picador, £15.99, pp. 228, ISBN 0330485164 Wil lie Chandran, from a family of temple priests, grows up in a maharajah's state in the......

Amor Scientiae

Ammo, a mass of Bunsen burners raised Above a mat, gas fire's blue-flamed salute A welcome into science; feeling praised, The classics left, a willing new recruit, I watched the......

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home coming Sybille Bedford h e Naples boat was on time. The crossing — it was May — had not been too gruelling. Lightly one stepped ashore and into the funicular, and after a......