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His Own Man

Justin Marozzi OMAR KHAYYAM: POET, REBEL, ASTRONOMER by Hazhir Teimourian Sutton, £20, pp. 384 ISBN 9780750947152 £16 (plus 2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 What little most of us know......

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So much for the ineffectual sandbags: we were put in touch with the loss adjuster, who came when the 'black water' had retired. They would indeed replace the white goods (for......

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Mary Keen Celebrity gardeners are what publishers are banking on this year. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, known in New York as 'the high priestess of historic garden......