11 OCTOBER 1986, page 36

A Fine Novelist, An Even Finer Writer

Francis King STARING AT THE SUN by Julian Barnes Cape, £9.95 S wift once wrote in a letter to Lord Bolingbroke: 'I remember, when I was a little boy, I felt a great fish at the......

Men Crying

They do it on their own or under the cover of darkness — silently, in true SAS style to fit in with the job, game of squash or whatever. Unlike women when the dam suddenly goes,......

As Cooks Came, They Went

J. G. Links FLORENCE: A TRAVELLERS' COMPANION SELECTED AND INTRODUCED by Harold Acton and Edward Chaney Constable, £12.95 The pavement is thickly strewn with sepul- chral slabs......