1 DECEMBER 2001, page 49

Gardening Books

Down to earth Mary Keen G ood in a Bed is a ghastly title for a delightful book. Ursula Buchan, the regular Spectator columnist, has just published a collection of her garden......

Out Of This World

Alberto Manguel THE PURSUIT OF OBLIVION: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF NARCOTICS, 1500-2000 by Richard Davenport-Hines Weidenfeld. £20, pp. 466, ISBN 0297643754 S ome time in the 1830s,......

An Icon, But No Illumination

Marcus Berlimann MADONNA by Andrew Morton Michael O'Mara, £18, pp. 256, ISBN 185479888X O ne day, far in the future, someone in publishing will look across his desk at an......