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May鈥檚 theme is the letter 鈥淢鈥�. First books off the bookshelf are about mammoths and moths. In Mammoth (Fourth Estate, 拢7.99), Richard Stone is happy about cloning if it will restore his beloved beasts to life and assuage that 鈥渂rute absence鈥�, as reviewer Stephen Baxter put it. Baxter did warn that 鈥渦nrealistic technocratic fantasies about resurrecting the mammoths themselves seem misguided鈥�. And despite detecting occasional irrelevancies, Roy Herbert liked Judith Hooper鈥檚 鈥渕arvellous tale鈥� Of Moths and Men (Fourth Estate, 拢8.99): 鈥渁 fascinating story in itself, but it is also bedecked with the vicious quarrels of scientists, their political jockeying, childish sulks and cruelties鈥�.