2 NOVEMBER 1991, page 45

Window Seat

Dawn. On the wall outside wind-chimes whose slaty carillon last night trickled, caressed my ears like a bijou by Ravel. Twitching: a mole-gibbet. And the roses whose nodding......

Under Western Eyes

David Crane IN SEARCH OF CONRAD by Gavin Young Hutchinson, £17.99, pp. 304 on't speak to me of Monmouth', Tennyson is reported saying on a visit to Lyme: 'Show me the steps from......

Fictions Of A Truth-teller

Caroline Moore THE SHORT NOVELS OF MARTHA GELLHORN Sinclair-Stevenson, £19.95, pp. 689 A s a schoolboy, my brother-in-law regularly went to the races;equally regular- ly, his......