28 FEBRUARY 1987, page 33

Reading For Pleasure

James Hughes-Onslow THE LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS by Susan Hill Hamish Hamilton, £12.95 H ow nice it must be to be a compul- sive writer and a successful one, earning a comfortable......

Bloomsbury's Discreet Man In Blue

Francis King THIS SMALL CLOUD: A PERSONAL MEMOIR by Harry Daley Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.95 T hrough J.R. Ackerley, I met the now dead author of this memoir, a former London......

In Edward Hamilton's Review Of Menzies And Churchill At War

14 February, the reference made to South America should have been to South Africa.......