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The West Indian Lobby

Robert Stewart AN EMPIRE DIVIDED: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy University of Pennsylvania Press, £44.50, £18.50, pp. 351 T......

A Land Of False Bottoms

Steve King ABYSSINIAN CHRONICLES by Moses Isegawa Picador, E16, pp. 462 M oses Isegawa was born in Kampala but has lived in Amsterdam for the past ten years. Abyssinian......

Spoiling For A Fight

P. N. Furbank IN DEFENCE OF T. S. ELIOT by Craig Raine Picador, .E20, pp. 516 ere is a collection of Craig Raines essays — or to put it more bluntly reprint- ed book reviews......