12 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 35

Making A False Impression

Francis King CHATTERTON by Peter Ackroyd Hamish Hamilton, £10.95 B oth in its theme of the past being like a corpse which, if exhumed, can infect the present with its miasma,......

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ball was over . . . J. L. Carr THE BOOK AND THE BROTHERHOOD by Iris Murdoch Chatto & Windus, £11.95 T hese are hard times for book-writers. Booker season is here and publishers......