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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

(1910s English girl confused by experience of the Raj)

Between Two Worlds

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust  (Englishwoman contrasts modern India with her aunt"s 1920s experience)

James Clavell, Shogun  (American becomes samurai in 17th-century Japan)

John Le Carre, The Perfect Spy  ("autobiography" of ipper-echelon British spy - and double-agent, trying to discover where his loyalty lies)

Henry James, The Ambassadors  (rich 1900s Americans take "culture" to Europe, find it more civilised than they expected)

Confused Emotions

R.K. Narayan, The Vendor of Sweets  (devout Hindu in rural India dismayed by son"s "progressive" ways)

V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas  (Indian Hindu in Jamaica caught between dependence on his wife"s all-engulfing family and his longing to lead his own life)

L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between  (small boy in 1910s England carries love-messages, emotions he only dimly understands)

Paul Theroux, Fong and the Indians  (Indian shopkeeper struggling to survive in rural, tribal Africa)

Willa Cather, My Antonía  (daughter of 19th-century Bohemian immigrants growing up in rural Nebraska)

Imperialism, Good and Bad

Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession  (blockbusting novel about English imperialism in Honk Kong)

James Blish, A Case of Conscience  (should mineral-rich planet be exploited at expense of native inhabitants" life and culture?)

James Blish, A Case of Conscience  (should mineral-rich planet be exploited at expense of native inhabitants" life and culture?)

Rudyard Kipling, Kim  (adventures of Anglo-indian boy in heyday of Raj)

Twilight of Empire

Paul Scott, Staying On  (plight of English in India after independence)

Peter Vansittart, Three Six Seven  (Romanised Britons watching advance of barbarism after 4th century collapse of Roman power)

Morris West, The Ambassador  (Us ambassador in Vietnam, appalled by his country"s action there)

Gerald Seymour, Field of Blood  (underover SAS officer hunts IRA suspect in present-day Belfast)

P.H. Newby, The Picnic at Sakkara  (English teacher in 1950s Egypt confused by collapse of British Empire)

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ALLBEURY, Ted

British novelist (1917-2005)

Allbeury writes packed, fast spy thrillers, usually with cold-war settings. His titles include A Choice of Enemies, Moscow Quadrille, The Man With the President's Mind, The Lantern Network, The Alpha List, The Crossing, Children of Tender Years and The Secret Whispers (about double agent attempting to escape from East Germany). He also uses the pseudonym Richard Butler (Where All Girls Are Sweeter; Italian Assets).

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Duff Hart-Davies, The Heights of Rimring Ted Willis, The Churchill Commando Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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The Perfect Spy

John Le Carré, The Perfect Spy

('autobiography' of ipper-echelon British spy - and double-agent, trying to discover where his loyalty lies)

Spy Stories

John Lear, Death in Leningrad  (ex-spy Ashweald revels in Leningrad - but there is a price to pay)

John Trenhaile, The Mahjong Soies  (can Chinese Intelligence stop KGB destablising Hong Kong?)

Philip Macdonald, The List of Adrian Messenger  (10 people on list, marked for death. What is the link - and can they be saved in time?)

Michael Molloy, The Kid from Riga  (can SAS officer give up his career for love? In the meantime ...)

Jack Higgins, Confessional  (KGB agent sent to Belfast to stir things up)

Martin Cruz Smith, Stallion Gate  (can Mexican folk magic halt 1945 race to develop atomic bomb?)

Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios/Coffin for Dimitrios  (hero tracks down elusive, deadly master-criminal)

Ted Allbeury, The Secret Whispers  (double agent escaping from eastern to western Europe)

A. J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father  (who is killing off ageing world leaders, one by one?)

Ian Fleming, Doctor No  (super-agent 007 outwits psychopathic master-criminal)

Len Deighton, Horse Under Water  (drugs, spies, master-criminals, all boiled together in Marrakesh)

Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic  (can "burnt-out" agent"s secret knowledge prevent World War III?)

Walter Wager, Telefon  (brainwashed assassins, "sleepers", await trigger phone-calls to terrorise USA)