10 MAY 1997, page 38

Trusted By Two, Loyal To One

Kevin Myers FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING by Martin McGartland Blake, £16.99, pp. 248 T he informer as hero is not, to put it mildly, a literary device popular in Ireland. If ever an......

Transforming Ourselves Into Beasts

Peter Levi TALES FROM OVID by Ted Hughes Faber, £14.99, £7.99, pp. 256 I t must be 100 years since Maurice Baring remembered in print how an Eton master, enquiring what class he......