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      The Danish novelist takes a personal, poetic trip around the wave-lashed landscape of her childhood

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      Manufacturers and campaigners point to the high cost to business and the environment of postponing rule changes

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      A sweeping and refreshingly balanced look at what the populist administration tells us about the modern Latin American nation

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      The Tiger and The Ruby by Kief Hillsbery — retracing a family fable in India

      A descendent tells a touching tale of an East India Company employee who went rogue in 1850s Nepal

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