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Books

The road to Stornoway Patrick Leigh Fermor LETTERS HOME edited by Lucy Butler John Murray, f17.99, pp.407 I t was only in his twenties that Robert Byron thought much about the......

The Trashti

Everyone called him the trashti, a name conceived somewhere between our languages. Speechless, perhaps an outcast, he would come at lucky intervals of seven days, pushing his......