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Books

Running wild with the ball Philip Hensher UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo Picador, £18, pp. 827 T o be blunt, most English readers will have some difficulties with the tone and......

An Indian With A Triple First

William Dalrymple THE TRAVELS OF DEAN MAHOMET: AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA edited by Michael H. Fisher University of California Press, £35, £13.95, pp. 229 I n......