Book of Donmon Teith

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first

His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow and he lived in the north of London coming into the City every day to work in a ba

Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satis

These tales are remarkable not just for the range of Indian places and situations they describe or their wealth of historical detail but also for their sensitiv