Book Box: William Dalrymple: The man with a foot in both camps
Everybody loves William Dalrymple. Readers rave about his City of Djinns, book clubs swoon over his Nine Lives. Authors anxiously await his approval, and with it, fingers crossed, a call to the most spectacular literary festival on Earth.If you are among those who have been invited to his farmhouse on the outskirts of Delhi, where he lives with his artist illustrator wife Olivia and their three children, and if you can say ‘Willie was saying...’, you have truly arrived in literary life. Since his arrival in India at the…