Mark Archer
In Pagan Virtue.• An Essay in Ethics (OUP, £12.50) John Casey contrasts the self- abnegation at the heart of the Christian ethic with the assertive tradition of the classical......
J.g. Links
It is hardly stretching a point to call Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time (12 volumes, Mandarin Paperbacks £3.99 each) a book of 1991. I read it straight through and......
Anthony Blond
I liked the certain way in which Isabel Colegate in her twelfth novel, Summer of a Royal Visit (Hamish Hamilton, £14.95), picks you up and puts you down in the sleazy end of......
Andro Linklater
Despite the knobbly monotone of his writing, James Kelman's collection of short stories, The Burn (Seeker, £13.99), keeps its uncomfortable shape quite clear in my mind while......
John Mcewen
In this year of the Japan Festival the most revealing book on the Western infatuation with Japan has been Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn by Jonathan Cott (Knopf,......
Patrick Skate Catling
Wolf Mankowitz's valediction (he says it's his last book) is that rarity, an entertaining novel of ideas. A Night with Casanova (Sinclair-Stevenson, £13.95) is a thought - fully......
Anne Chisholm
For those who are beginning to feel that the biography bandwagon is out of control, David Marr's superb book about Patrick White (Cape, £20) should be a reassurance. He has......
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