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Raw Skin Over Bone

Magnus Linklater STONE VOICES: THE SEARCH FOR SCOTLAND by Neal Ascherson Granta, 116.99, pp. 240, ISBN 1862075247 A t the Edinburgh Book Festival this year, Dr David Starkey,......

Kidnapped, Duped And Disappointed

Hilary Mantel BALTHASAR'S ODYSSEY by Amin Maalouf, translated by Barbara Bray Harvill, f16.99, pp. 391, ISBN 1860469922 W e are approaching 1666, 'The Year of the Beast', the......