19 APRIL 1986, page 25

At The Vegetable Counter

From Cyprus, pommes de terre not pommes d'amour - Deep winter, our own murphies past their best. But these are thin-skinned as the goddess, tanned Lightly, as she, too, in that......

Spring Books

R eaders will remember with pleasure Paul Theroux's glowing review (Spectator, 30 November 1985) of Elias Canetti's The Human Province (Deutsch, £9.95). In it Mr Theroux......