30 MAY 1998, page 35

Too Odd Not To Be True

James Delingpole THE PECULIAR MEMORIES OF THOMAS PENMAN by Bruce Robinson Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 256 O ne of the worst hazards of male puberty is the random erection. How well......

A Doubting Pilgrim's Happy Progress

Gareth Howell-Jones THE RINGS OF SATURN by W. G. Sebald, translated from the German by Michael Hulse Harvill, £15.99, pp. 304 L ying in a hospital bed, 'in a state of almost......