20 OCTOBER 1984, page 35

Fry's Delight

Christopher Booker CB: The Life of Charles Burgess Fry Clive Ellis (Dent £10.95) rr here cannot have been many English- ", men who were already national figures before the end......

Misfortunes Of A Fan

Francis King In Custody Anita Desai (Heinemann £9.95)) O thers have already remarked on the odd fact that five of the six books on the Booker Prize short-list were about......