Fast away the old year passes... As 2018 speeds to an end I'm already looking forward to 2019. New books, new ideas, new events and new projects. The Begum is one. A biography in the making for some years now, it's been an extraordinary journey of discovery--about historical events and the lives of people who were just names to me earlier. Each book has a journey of its own and many people help it along the way. This biography of a remarkable woman whose story somehow got lo