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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
“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
In a secret drawer of his desk, making it difficult to open or close, lay docketed reports headed Villiers, Diana, widow of Charles Villiers, late of Bombay, Esquire, and Canning, Richard, of Park Street and Coluber House, co. Bristol. These two were as carefully documented as any pair of State suspects working for Bonaparte’s intelligence services
... See morePatrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Macdonald accepted the invitation, much interested in this product of Shoreditch. Alf’s Cockney origin still sounded in his speech, despite the slurring burr which association with Devonshire children had developed, but the great difference between Alf and his country schoolmates was the quickness of the Cockney’s reactions. He was still as sharp a
... See moreE. C. R. Lorac • Fire in the Thatch
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Robert McFarlane, nature writer
Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born:
Patrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Before he set off to Hyderabad, Shore had briefed William Kirkpatrick to stick to the existing Triple Alliance, signed four years earlier in 1790, which bound the Marathas,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
On his return to London, Roe made it clear to the directors that force of arms was not an option when dealing