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The Perilous Afghan Road

Sara Wheeler AN UNEXPECItD LIGHT by Jason Elliot Picador, £16.99, pp. 396 T he toponyms of Afghanistan are freighted with romance — Nuristan, Badakhstan, Iskazer — conjuring the......

Masters, Mistresses And Mysteries

John Michell DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME AND OTHER UNEXPLAINED POWERS OF ANIMALS by Rupert Sheldrake Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 300 s a child Rupert Sheldrake......