19 APRIL 1986, page 35

Old Books For New

Nicholas Barker W hen I first went to work at the British Library, then not long separate d from the British Museum but still occupy - ing a large part of the Museum, I called......

The Movie-maker

I step from a hot train. There is a platform stippled like shortbread, sanded with weak sunlight. There is a pigeon's iced spatter, a tipexed squat, there, by the wrought......