14 APRIL 1990, page 36

Highland Tour

I have a limpback vade-mecum with me now, Bought for old shillings off a market stall At Whit, in a pepper-faced granite town, Oyster grey, like the unwashable fly-leaf scrawl.......

The Rise Of

the nouveau book review Robert O'Brien C ritics moan of the 'decline' of the novel; novelists obstinately contradict them. Nobody has perceived the true nature of what is......