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Poet's Guide To The Galaxy

Grey Gowrie HERE TO ETERNITY by Andrew Motion Faber, £16.99, pp. 402, ISBN 0571 S ince he became Poet Laureate in 1999, Andrew Motion has been the subject of some teasing, in......

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......