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The Empress And I

Amit Chaudhuri INDIAN SAHIB by Sushila Anand Duckworth, £16.95, pp. 112 I n 1887, 24-year-old Abdul Karim, son of a humble hakim (a Muslim doctor) and scion of a family in no......

Scotland The Grave

Charles Maclean THE KILN by William Mcllvanney Sceptre, £15.99, pp. 277 n offer here is the memoir of a dis- mayed man sitting alone in an Edinburgh flat thinking about the......