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Books

Remembering like anything Christopher Booker The Dictionary of National Biography 1961-70 eds. E. T. Williams and C. S. Nicholls (Oxford University Press pp. 1178, £40) The......

Trans-arabia

James Cameron Among the Believers V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch pp. 400, £7.95) The affinity of uppercrust Islam with the old Brits of the brave Imperial days was understandable if not......