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A Ghastly Crew

Alan Coren THE GOSSIPS by Teresa Waugh Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99, pp. 213 T here is, in West London, a rude rhom- boid boundaried in the north by Holland Park Avenue, in the......

Finding Rubies By The Indian Ganges Side

William Dalrymple THE HEART OF INDIA by Mark Tully Viking, £16, pp. 239 G etting mistaken for Mark Tully is one of the occupational hazards of being a foreign correspondent in......