18 MAY 1985, page 28

Marooned

Francis King Crusoe's Daughter Jane Gardam (Hamish Hamilton £8.95) nn the surface this is a chronicle novel V about a girl, Polly Flint, who is orphaned at the age of six and......

The Raised Eyebrow

Patrick Skene Catling The Collected Short Stories of Noel Coward Volume II Introduction by Martin Turner (Methuen £9.95) L Ike large, very dry martinis with a zest of lemon, the......