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Between Flights Of Fancy

Gillian Tindall GHOSTS OF MANILA by James Hamilton-Paterson Cape, £14.99, pp. 278 T he outsider's arrival by anonymous jet, descending into an exotic location which is about to......

Making Tracks To All Points

Nicholas Faith THE RAILWAY EMPIRE by Anthony Burton John Murray, £19.99, pp. 264 T he tales of imperial derring-do in the great rush which resulted in the construc- tion of a......