24 OCTOBER 1998, page 50

Childhood Chinese Torture

Teresa Waugh DAUGHTER OF THE RIVER by Hong Ying Bloomsbury, £16.99, pp. 278 S o removed are we in the West from the kind of deprivation, misery and filth of a Chinese slum, so......

Delicious Potted Duck

Andrew Barrow WOOLF AT THE DOOR: DUCKWORTH, 100 YEARS OF BLOOMSBURY BEHAVIOUR by John Jolliffe Duckworth, £16.95, pp. 105 he extraordinarily glamorous party at which this slip......