18 MAY 1991, page 29

South African Queen

Francis King THE INDOOR BOY by Anthony Sher Chatto, f13.99, pp. 277 A ntony Sher has given a number of fine performances but none finer than as that greatest of all theatrical......

The Shade And Loneliness And Mire

Andro Linklater THE BURN by James Kelman Secker & Warburg, £13.99, pp. 244 E om his photograph on the dust-jacket of The Burn, James Kelman stares at the camera with a......

Cows

Cows turn grass into cow, milk and dung. They mow and manure, combine excretion with harvest, bale grass inside stomachs, then push it out behind them as they go. Cows smell of......