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Problems And Worry-beads

Norman Stone ISLAM AND SOCIETY IN TURKEY by David Shankland Eothen Press, £27.50, £18,50, pp. 240 Tel: 01480 466 106 D avid Shankland, a pupil of Ernest Gellner's, spent a year......

A Crowning Achievement

Barry Unsworth THE HILL BACHELORS by William Trevor Viking, £15.99, pp. 256 T e Hill Bachelors is William Trevor's first collection of short stories since the brilliant and......