29 SEPTEMBER 1990, page 37

Better Than Glory

Christopher Hawtree A DICTIONARY OF DEDICATIONS by Adrian Room Bloomsbury, £17.99, pp.354 S tand up, Julian Barnes!', remarked William Boyd when the improbably-named Adrian Room......

No Hope For Elizabeth Or South Africa

Francis King AGE OF IRON by J.M. Coetzee Secker &Warburg, £12.99, pp.181 A white South African woman, a re- tired university lecturer in Latin, learns from her doctor that she......