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Behind The Indian Screen

Philip Glazebrook A NEW WORLD by Amit Chaudhuri Picador, £12.99, pp. 200 T he first thing to be said about A New World is that it is a very clever, very suc- cessful piece of......

Close But Strined Relations

Peter Porter ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN ATTITUDES by Michael Davie Secker, £17.99, pp. 250 i ll the line stretch out to the crack of doom?' — not of Banquo's issue but of books about......

Books

A very English trajectory Main de Botton SIDETRACKS: EXPLORATIONS OF A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHER by Richard Holmes HarperCollins, £19.99, pp. 420 I t's astonishing how people have the......