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Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
ambitious young man of thirty-seven with a high forehead, thick,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
CAMBRIDGE BASED PEOPLE OF INTEREST
Robert McFarlane, nature writer
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
“He possesses in my opinion, not the slightest spark of honour and affection, according to English ideas of those qualities.”
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
Mr Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests exce
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
to think of Eastdale as a self-contained community whose systems are solely the result of Eastdale’s story of change is mistaken.