Book description
Codewords have been one of The Daily Telegraph's most successful puzzles since their introduction to the paper in summer 2003, and here we are proud to present another in the popular series of Codewords books. The principle is simple: the unsolved grid shows squares containing numbers, each of which correspondsâŚ
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1 author picked Koh-I-Noor as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Part of the value of diamonds comes from how avidly people steal them. The cat-burglar on the French Riviera. The miner swallowing a stone and trying to make it past the x-ray at the gate. Or the conquerors, snatching jewels from one turban after another as they ride through history. That last is the story of the Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light), told with his usual panache by William Dalrymple, the celebrated historian of Mughal India, in this non-fiction account. It falls to Dalrympleâs co-author, journalist Anita Anand, to track the jewel though it's last, decidedly inglorious change of ownershipâstolen byâŚ
From Matthew's list on stealing diamonds.
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