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Variations On A Simple Theme

Francis King A QUIET LIFE by Kenzaburo OE, translated by Kunioki Yanagishita and William Wetherall Picador, £6.99, pp. 240 A single event soars up, a sheer, jagged, snow-covered......

Nature She Loved

Antony Rouse RACHEL CARSON by Linda Lear Allen Lane, £25, pp. 634 I n January 1958, a Mrs Olga Huckins of Duxbury, Massachusetts, wrote enraged to her friend, the naturalist and......

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