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The Men Who Would Be King

Alan Sked REBELS, PRETENDERS AND IMPOSTORS by Clive Cheesman and Jonathan Williams British Museum Press, £17.99, pp. 192 efore the age of newspapers and pho- tography, it was a......

Nothing Matters Very Much

Robert Macfarlane J ohn Barrow wrote a very good book about scientific TOEs or Theories of Every- thing, so it seems only proper that he should since have turned his......

The Fascination Of The Banal

Norman Lebrecht THE POSTCARD CENTURY by Tom Phillips Thames & Hudson, £29.95, £19.95, pp. 452 T he time has come to confess to a dirty little habit, before the tabloids get hold......