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What Should Not Be Known

Philip Hensher F OR L UST OF K NOWING : T HE O RIENTALISTS AND T HEIR ENEMIES by Robert Irwin Penguin/Allen Lane, £25, pp. 410, ISBN 0713994150 ✆ £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429......

Change And Decay

Kate Chisholm T HE N IGHT W ATCH by Sarah Waters Virago, £16.99, pp. 473, ISBN 1844082466 ✆ £13.59 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T he prizewinning novelist Sarah Waters enjoys......