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The Men Who Would Be King

Alan Sked REBELS, PRETENDERS AND IMPOSTORS by Clive Cheesman and Jonathan Williams British Museum Press, £17.99, pp. 192 efore the age of newspapers and pho- tography, it was a......

A Choice Of First Fiction

Jessica Berry ■ hen the body of a young woman is found lying in her blood in a Viennese park beneath the statue of Kaiserin Elizabeth, herself assassinated 12 years before, the......