20 NOVEMBER 1993, page 42

Hilary Mantel

Usually I just raise my eyebrows at the Booker winner, but this year I want to raise a cheer. Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Secker & Warburg, £12.99) is a very clever,......

Hilary Corke

Richard Holmes's Dr Johnson and Mr Savage (Hodder, £19.99), though perhaps written with a slightly blunt quill, is a mine of forgotten early-18th-century scurrility , manly and......

J.g. Links

After waiting six years for a new Prawer Jhabvala novel and four for one by Iris Murdoch, a year in which both at last per- form turns out to be dominated by Vikram Seth's A......

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