19 MARCH 1994, page 39

Finished His Sport

John McEwen `BB': A CELEBRATION edited and introduced by Tom Quinn Whamediffe, £18.95, pp. 303 D enys Watkins-Pitchford, or 'BB' (1905-1990), was the last of his kind, a hunter......

Choosing To Be A Swan

was not one of my best moves the balancing so tricky, the flapping so draughty, the little loosened feathers getting up her nose so that she sneezed and shuddered when stillness......

A Provoked Wife, Followed By A Relapse

John Jolliffe CASTLE HOWARD: THE LIFE AND TIMES by Venetia Murray Viking £18, pp. 236 T he most astonishing thing about Castle Howard as a building is that its architect, the......