Hints and tips:
...A single from Porthmadog to Caernarfon costs £22.70 – for details visit festrail.co.uk … William Dalrymple A holy lake in the Himalayas I’ve always had a thing about holy mountains....
...Serena likes Margaret Drabble, AS Byatt and Fay Weldon; Tom likes BS Johnson, JG Ballard and William Gaddis. She likes detail, he likes structure. Sweet Tooth has been written to please both of them....
...In 1984, for instance, it favoured William Kennedy’s Ironweed over Thomas Berger’s The Feud . That is the Pulitzers’ glory....
...George F Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis, Penguin Press, RRP£30 A biography of the man who devised America’s strategy of “containment” to deal with the Soviet Union after 1945 also serves...
...Gaddi Vasquez, the US ambassador to the FAO in Rome, says that to increase crop yields, “one of the most promising ways is through GM”....
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