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A Small, Bespectacled Hero

David Gilmour T HE S IEGE OF V ENICE by Jonathan Keates Chatto, £20, pp. 495, ISBN 0701166371 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 U nited Italy was reluctant to honour......

Paradise Lost In Kashmir

Francis King S HALIMAR THE C LOWN by Salman Rushdie Cape, £17.99, pp. 416, ISBN 0224061615 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 800 6655 T his novel starts near the end of its story.......