Tiny But Good
Patrick Skene Catling The Complete Clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley introd. Gavin Ewart (Oxford University Press pp. 145, £5.95) E. C. Bentley Was not only quite superior......
Family Affair
Francis King Customs Lisa Zeidner (Cape pp.272, £6.95) in this first novel by a 26-year-old Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, reality is layered with fantasy like a......
To My Daughter
When I'm far out in drink, your musical box Gives me the horrors. Mermaids on the rocks, Beached rabbits, stranded starfish, teddy bears — Simpering pyknic picnickers in pairs —......
Flashes Of Wit
James Lasdun Feelings Have Changed P. H. Newby (Faber pp. 266, £6.95) A Separate Development Christopher Hope (Routledge & Kegan Paul pp. 199, £6.95) L'eelings Have Changed......