13 JUNE 1987, page 42

At A Statue Of Hamilton

Knowing more than they knew, knowing everything, really, or more than we want to know, we dismiss them now, in their waistcoats, their hose, their grandiloquence. If we see them......

Still In Peril On The Sea

Francis King CLOSE QUARTERS by William Golding Faber, £9.95 W hen in 1980 William Golding's Rites of Passage won the Booker Prize, there were those, one of the runners-up in -......

Thousands Of Years Of Long Toes

Anne Chisholm SARUM by Edward Rutherfurd Century Hutchinson, £9.95 0 n the first page of this mammoth historical saga about life in and around Salisbury, it is very cold and......