12 NOVEMBER 1983, page 30

Sweet Revenge

Miranda Seymour Eleni Nicholas Gage (Collins £9.95) T he climax to D.M. Thomas's disturbing novel, The White Hotel, comes when Lisa and her child face death by firing squad on......

Love To Death

Francis King Coup de Grace Marguerite Yourcenar (Aidan Ellis £7.95) ry this short novel, first published in V French in 1939, the author has declared that is was written 'almost......