10 APRIL 1982, page 23

A Book In My Life

A. L. Rowse G eorge Santayana is overlooked and neglected today, and yet he wrote about the most perfect English prose of this century. He wrote one book that became a......

Thin Ice

Francis King The Skating Party Marina Warner (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £6.95) rr he river Floe, which one assumes really 1. to be the Cam, has frozen over and a middle - aged......