Raleigh Trevelyan
Italo Calvino has long been one of my favourite authors, and I greatly enjoyed his novel If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Secker and Warburg), a typical intellectual tease. I......
Harriet Waugh
My first two choices are novels. Both, coincidentally set before the Second World War, follow the development of a child through girlhood to monstrous middle age. Both are......
Michael Wharton
Among paperbacks I have come across, the Oxford University Press's reissue of The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas, with a new introduction, is outstanding; all the known poems......
Farewell, My Mystery
Anthony Storr Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler ed. Frank MacShane (Cape pp. 501, £12.50) A n editor once wrote that Chandler 'had revived the lost art of letter-writing.'......