2 NOVEMBER 1985, page 32

Shundicknicks, Spielers And Gonoffs

Christopher Howse STINIE: MURDER ON THE COMMON by Andrew Rose Bodley Head, £9.95 T here's nothing like a mysterious mur- der to spawn books. And the murder on Clapham Common in......

A Hero In The Mountains Of India

Philip Glazebrook THE HEART OF A CONTINENT by Francis Younghusband OUP Hong Kong, £25 I n this magnificent account of his jour- neys through Central Asia in the last years of......

Lakeside: February

Mud lane descending, the lake squared-on to vision, crammed with early sail vanishing and reappearing beyond headlands. Diagonal white horses blown to a slurp at the foot of......