3 MAY 1997, page 43

The Language Of Her Imagination

Jane Gardam THE SELECTED bD STORIES OF MAVIS GALLANT Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 888 I t is odd that Mavis Gallant, for decades publishing fiction in the New Yorker, widely translated,......

Only The Sloppy Leave A Trace

Nicholas Harman LAST POST: THE END OF EMPIRE IN THE FAR EAST by John Keay John Murray, £22, pp. 385 A book called The Last Post should not have to fill most of its first page......