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• The Flaming Terrapin

  "I was sitting one day in the old Cafe Royal one evening with Thomas Wade Earp, whose acquaintance I had lately made."
• Laurie Lee's secret love child is found living on cider farm

  "She is the secret that Laurie Lee, author of Cider with Rosie too with him to his grave."
• All the Best Minds under One Roof

  "Ben Okri delivers the English-Speaking Union lecture, 4 pm."
• Meet the Authors at . . .

  "And Ben Okri begs for a more gentle creative world."
• The rise and rise of laddism among ladies

  "Intending to read Ben Okri, she ends up re-reading Men are from Mars, Women from Venus or watching Blind Date."
• The Oracle

  "But Senghor (poet or President of Senegal), could say, if he wanted to, 'I have been French since 1792.'