10 OCTOBER 1992, page 29

No Escape (1)

There's no alternative, No escape; Only through good deeds Can one serve God. Thus this poem mocks its creator, Who (dismayed by human kind) Sits all daylong Scribbling that......

Books

To the faults a little bland Hilary Mantel THE ART OF FICTION by David Lodge Secker & Warburg, £14.99, pp. 240, Penguin, £5.99 D avid Lodge's new work is a kind of readers'......