24 JUNE 1995, page 35

Teaching Them No End Of A Lesson

Kate Grimond THE DEAD SCHOOL by Patrick McCabe Picador, £14.99, pp. 345 T he headmaster — a man of influence and stature — of St Antony's Boys Primary School in Dublin appoints......

Books

Agents and patience Anthony Howard FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY: SECRET INTELLIGENCE AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY FROM WASHINGTON TO BUSH by Christopher Andrew HarperCollins,......

Where Are You?

In this garden, after a day of rain, a blackbird is making soundings, flinging his counter-tenor line into blue air, to where an answering cadenza shows the shape and depth of......