17 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 48

So Like Our Own Dear Home Life

Cressida Connolly THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD by Alice Thomas Ellis Duckworth, £9.95, pp.233 I know people who buy The Spectator for the Home life column alone. Its weekly......

Bounced Czech Returned To Sender

Anita Brookner A SEASON IN THE WEST by Piers Paul Read Allison Press/Secker and Warburg, £10.95, pp. 238 T he delights of the West, as envisaged by Czech writer Josef Birek,......