12 JANUARY 1985, page 24

His Own Small Sky

Peter Levi An Umbrella from Piccadilly Jaroslav Seifert (London Magazine Editions £5) O ne advantage of the Nobel Prize is that people tend to learn the name, if nothing else,......

Liverish Relish

Christopher Hawtree The Collected Stories Frank Tuohy (Macmillan £12.95) P ossibly I am present in this story only as a small punctuation mark in a sentence that was already......