14 DECEMBER 1996, page 66

A Dandy At Waterloo

Byron Rogers ONE LEG by the Marquess of Anglesey Leo Cooper, £25, pp. 446 I t seems he may not have said at Water- loo, 'By God, sir, I've lost my leg.' So the Duke of......

Bear And Child, Soviet-style

John Bayley THE FOUNDATION PIT by Andrey Platonov Harvill, 114.99, pp. 192 F ew really good novels get written about 'important' subjects. Why should they? 'The free novel', as......