18 DECEMBER 1993, page 62

Pure Sensation From The Past

Charlotte Lennox-Boyd T hese two first novels of Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) have just been reprinted as part of a collection of `sensation novels' of the 1860s. The publisher's......

The Worst Of British

Patrick Boyle FIRE OVER ENGLAND by Ken Russell Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 192 W hy, you may ask, is a man responsi- ble for some of the worst British films ever made writing a book......