1 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 31

Daisy Pulls It Off

Anita Brookner THE GATE OF ANGELS by Penelope Fitzgerald Collins, £12.95, pp. 167 T he gate in question could stand as a symbol for the novel, or for what I take the novel to be......

No Intellectual Backbone

Andrei Navrozov THE GREAT TERROR: A REASSESSMENT by Robert Conquest Hutchison, £19.95, pp. 570 W hen this book was first published, Czechoslovakia was reminded that, while the......

The Poem 'birth Of Venus' Which Appeared In The Issue

of 18 August was, of course, by Hilary Corke, not Corbe, as was mistakenly printed. We apologise to the author.......