16 JUNE 1990, page 32

International Cuisine

Solicitors and whitewash juries Like the food here. The family furies Talking détente preserve the tone Of old revenge. This bistro's known For noble menus, plain soothsaying.......

Conrad And Ford Madox Ford

William Green By 1898 the nature of the relationship had changed. Conrad wrote cryptically to Ford, 'I have a word for your ear', and proceeded to ask the younger novelist to......

The Agonies And The Ex's

Isabel Colegate FORD MADOX FORD by Alan Judd Collins, £16.95, pp.471 T here was probably always something rather absurd about Ford Madox Ford. He was first so thin and then so......

The Card House

No map exists of the familiar rooms, no armchair, tantalus, or tinsel-tree, no silver tray with its brocade of crumbs, no souvenirs of the imperial sea, no trivial pursuits, no......