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No Complaints While On The Warpath

William Boyd MARCHING OVER AFRICA by Frank Emery Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95 Q ueen Victoria certainly kept her armies busy. There were the big wars Crimea, the Indian Mutiny,......

A Californian Novel In Verse

Christopher Hawtree THE GOLDEN GATE by Vikram Seth Faber, f9.95 M uch the most obvious way of giving an account of this novel would be to venture some verse of one's own. Of......