2 APRIL 1988, page 28

An Extremely Wearing Business

Anita Brookner THE FASHION CONSPIRACY by Nicholas Coleridge Heinemann, £12.95 T he extent of the conspiracy is indi- cated by the photographs, which show beaming and prosperous......

0 Uncommon Alan Bennett

Patrick Skene Catling TALKING HEADS by Alan Bennett BBC, f4.95 I don't know why it should be only Catholics who are thought never to escape their religious upbringing,' Alan......