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A Bizarre Enterprise

Byron Rogers TRAVELS IN AN OLD TONGUE: TOURING THE WORLD SPEAKING WELSH by Pamela Petro £18, pp. 325 A n image and a mystery have stayed with me from this book. The image is......

The Lowest Of The Low

Allan Mallinson THE INVISIBLES: A TALE OF THE EUNUCHS OF INDIA by Zia Jaffrey Weidenfeld, £15.99, pp. 293 H ijra, 'neither male nor female', is a word of Urdu origin, the......