28 SEPTEMBER 1985, page 30

‘yarroo' In The Corridors Of History

Miranda Seymour BUNTER SAHIB by Daniel Green Hodder, f8.95 BUT FOR BUNTER by David Hughes Heinemann, f8.95 I never myself had much time for the fat owl of Greyfriars, possibly......

A Kind Of Faith

Wandering into dreams My loved and lost ones shake My cool agnostic ways. He: 'Look how I see again.' `Let's take that ferny walk We promised ourselves,' she says. Then from the......

A Voice From The Past

Francis King HAWKSMOOR by Peter Ackroyd Hamish Hamilton, £8.95 T he epithet 'clever' has tended to become a pejorative among reviewers themselves obtuse. But however great my......