28 AUGUST 1982, page 23

How Red Was My Valley?

Alan Watkins T he story goes that in the days of the old South Wales Miners' Federation (before it became part of the National Union of Mineworkers) there was a discus- sion......

Metaphorical

D. J. Taylor he experimental novel is stirring again, 1 and with a fiction list containing Josipovici, Maggie Gee and now this ex- traordinary first work by Sue Roe the......

Poetic Justice

James Knox The Scottish Reformation: Church and Society in sixteenth-century Scotland Ian B Cowan (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £11.95) I t is impossible to like John Knox. He was......