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On The Dadar Express

The poem brings you to mind, as this place brings the poem: platform, nameboard, idling steam- engine, a landscape of sand somewhere in Tamil Nadu on the day I'm fifty three. I......

Books

The game of the name Philip Hensher THE INFORMATION by Martin Amis HarperCollins, £15.99, pp. 496 T here are two novelists. Both are very bad. But one writes the sort of......

All In A Lifetime

M. R. D. Foot THE GLADSTONE DIARIES, VOLUMES XII, XIII, XIV edited by Colin Matthew OUP, £65 each, pp. 702, 486, 862 GLADSTONE 1875-1898 by Colin Matthew OUP, £25, pp. 421 M r......