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Among The Pretenders

Alberto Manguel MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul Picador, £16.99, pp. 304, ISBN 0330485202 £14.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 m r Herbert Spencer was an angry man. When he was......

The Gringo's Progress

Lee Langley THE ZIGZAG WAY by Anita Desai Chatto, £12.99, pp, 192, ISBN 0701177438 . r.; 111.99 (plus 12.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I n his History of the Conquest of Mexico,......