A Nthony D Aniels J. G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (fourth...
is a dyspeptic vision of a dystopian Britain that has already halfarrived. He is a close observer of our national malaise: indiscriminate consumerism combined with a sense of......
S Am L Eith There Were A Lot Of Old Favourites Performing
well this year in fiction. Martin Amis’s gulag story House of Meetings (Cape, £15.99) was terrific, though he must be sick to his new back teeth of hearing it accorded the......
D Igby D Urrant How Did Siegfried Sassoon At 42 In The
throes of a love affair with Stephen Tennant, the most flamboyant homosexual in the land, and moving in the same smart circle as the Sitwells and the Garsington set, shut......
L Ee L Angley Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder...
me on every page. Eleven stories with a narrator who shares Atwood’s sardonic, lethal humour, ability to inspire laughter and touch the heart. Family life, memory, the rueful......