1 FEBRUARY 1992, page 29

Books Not Quite Ghastly Enough

Bevis Hillier Nature [Max wrote] had in some corner of the earth produced two large brown diamonds, of which she was very proud; and it had seemed to her that Andrew Lang's face......

The Adventures Of Her Sane Mother

Margaret Forster HIDEOUS KINKY by Esther Freud Hamish Hamilton, £14.99, pp.186 D o not let the silly title of this first novel put you off: there is nothing either 'hideous' or......

The Sins Of The Fathers

Dudley Young MINOTAUR by Tom Paulin Faber, £16, pp. 298 hat is remarkable about these essays on various poets (mostly English and American) of the past two centuries is the way......