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Active And Passive

Anita Brookner WINTER JOURNEY by Isabel Colegate Hamish Hamilton, f14.99, pp. 200 I sabel Colegate has proved herself to be thoroughly at home with the deceits of time and has......

Accountant Of The Lost Ark

William Dalrymple AUREL STEIN: PIONEER OF THE SILK ROAD by Annabel Walker John Murray, £25, pp. 393 T he oddest thing about Aurel Stein was that, despite living the life of a......