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P. J. K Avanagh Helena Drysdale’s Strangerland: A Family...

(Picador, 14.99) stays in the mind because of its mixture of history with the personal, which makes the history live. Pre-Mutiny military life in India (the Sikh wars) and a......

N Icholas H Aslam Edward St Aubin’s Mother’s Milk...

like gin to me, and a tonic too, and he should have won the Mann Booker. I absolutely loved Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins (LittleBrown, £18.99), Rupert Everett’s......

D Igby A Nderson The Sydney Horler Omnibus Of Excitement...

Horler (Hodder & Stoughton. Charity shop 50p). Arthur Mee’s Book of the Flag: Island and Empire by Arthur Mee (Hodder & Stoughton, 1941. Charity shop 60p, originally 12s 6d).......