18 FEBRUARY 1989, page 20

Bruce Chatwin

Patrick Leigh Fermor looks back on the life of the writer, who died last month `YOU never told me he was a schoolboy!' exclaimed a friend. Carried away by On the Black Hill, she......

Robert Southwell This Is The Second Of Our Series On

English spiritual writers. It will run throughout Lent. ON 20 February 1595, Robert South- well stood before the Queen's Bench, charged with entering the country as a priest. He......