31 DECEMBER 2005, page 34

French Prize Novels

Anita Brookner A lthough it was set up as a contest between a flagrant outsider and a more traditional intimist there was little doubt that Michel Houellebecq would lose out in......

Portrait Of A Lady

We caught the Number Five from Marco Polo to Piazzale Roma for the waterbus. Bellini, Tintoretto, Tiepolo slumbered nearby. The cold affected us, a raw low-season haar rising......