PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ray Monk is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and has also written biographies of Bertrand Russell and J. Robert Oppenheimer. His chief interests now lie in environmental activism and the promotion of veganism.
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