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|author=Zareer Masani
|title=Macaulay: Britain's Liberal Imperialist
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=If Thomas Babington Macaulay is remembered at all today, it is probably for the historical writings to which he devoted himself during the last few years of his life. Yet earlier in his career, he was also a Member of Parliament, a government minister, and served for some years in India, playing a major reforming role as a member of the governor-general’s council.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587025</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=The first story in ''Bobcat'' is the title story, and this alone is worth the price of admission. Plaster it with prizes, put it in anthologies; it deserves every accolade it can get. However, the last story echoes the first, and the five tales in between are strangely repetitive, most with Midwestern North American narrators and 1980s university settings. Moreover, all seven are in the first-person; I would have appreciated more variety of perspective.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182311</amazonuk>
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