10 MARCH 2001, page 42

Trouble Comes To The Cotton Fields

Ranjit Bolt A PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham Centwy, £16.99, pp. 388, ISBN 0712670394 A writer who can go on about the logistics and economics of cotton-picking at some length......

The Prince Of Lightness

Jonathan Cecil SEVEN MEN AND TWO OTHERS by Max Beerbohm Prion, £8.99, pp. 233, ISBN 1853754153 I n his old age, Max Beerbohm described how he had recently reread one or two of......