Scoop Lee Child Anita Desai's stories are peopled

Anita Desai's stories are peopled with intensely individual characters - the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of a melon

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Lieutenant-Commander Esmond Brooke

Scoop Lee Child Anita Desai's stories are peopledLord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant