11 NOVEMBER 2000, page 59

The First Great Englishman

David Nokes CHAUCER 1340-1400 A ccording to a recent ICM survey, there are sadly only 20 per cent of the pop- ulation who know that Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales. So the......

The Last Game Left

Andrew Gimson A MAD WORLD, MY MASTERS by John Simpson Macmillan, £20, pp. 421 T his random collection of anecdotes is drawn from John Simpson's far-flung trav- els as a......