16 DECEMBER 1995, page 77

A Selection Of Recent Thrillers

Harriet Waugh A ndrew Taylor is becoming almost as versatile as Ruth Rendell as a writer about the darker side of human folly. The Mortal Sickness (Hodder, £16.95) is the second......

Memories Of The Height-to-weight Ratio

I was a translator in the Institute back when being accredited as a poet meant signing things against Vietnam. For scorn of the bargain I wouldn't do it. And the Institute was......