11 OCTOBER 1986, page 37

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......

Russia's Greatest Poet Proses

Andrei Navrozov LESS THAN ONE by Joseph Brodsky Viking, 115.95 P oets in our civilisation,' a famous poet wrote in his most famous essay, 'must be difficult'. He went on to......