18 APRIL 1987, page 30

Yes, But What's He Really Like?

Anthony Holden OLIVIER: IN CELEBRATION edited by Garry O'Connor Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95 S ome years ago, I wrote a biography of the Prince of Wales. Ever since, off and on,......

Black Melancholy Mischief

Anita Brookner THE STORIES OF MURIEL SPARK The Bodley Head, £12.95 T hings mostly turn out for the worst in Muriel Spark's short stories, as they do in her novels, but with one......