19 APRIL 1997, page 38

In Search

of a better self Teresa Waugh HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Main de Botton Picador, £12.99, pp. 215 L urking in the world of letters there must somewhere be someone who......

The Sins Of The Father

Selina Hastings THE KISS: A SECRET LIFE by Kathryn Harrison Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 207 T he story Kathryn Harrison tells in The Kiss is so terrible that I felt guilty at......

Politics And Charades

John Jolliffe RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN by Linda Kelly Sinclair-Stevenson, f25, pp. 365 S heridan's character and life were an unusually violent mixture of sparkling qualities......