25 NOVEMBER 1989, page 52

A Plucky Trip Across Afghanistan

Samantha Weinberg DUST OF THE SAINTS by Radek Sikorski Chatto, £14.95, pp. 288 adek Sikorski went to Afghanistan wearing many hats. He was a traveller, crusader, reporter and......

In The Realms Of Gold And Elsewhere

Denis Hills TO RUN ACROSS THE SEA by Norman Lewis Cape, f12.95, pp. 230 N orman Lewis is drawn to outlandish places rich in human frailties. The present collection of essays and......

The General's Plaque

This much-praised general made such a cock of things That thousands of men were slaughtered. All may view The temple-plaque in his honour. No one sings Praise of the wives, each......

Heat

Here, in the south, the sheer heat works like booze: I lean on my desk beside North windows open wide But still the weight of warmth unbuttons me. What broke, at noon, the......