4 MAY 1996, page 36

Boy, Oh Boy

Simon Raven SATYRICA by Petronius, edited and translated by R. Bracht Branham and Daniel Kinney Dent, £18.99, pp. 184 P etronius' Satyricon is a jaunty piece of picaresque, much......

Teaching The Teachers

Kate Hubbard MAVIS BELFRAGE: A ROMANTIC NOVEL WITH FIVE SHORTER TALES by Alasdair Gray Bloomsbury, £13.99, pp. 158 T his is a small volume — a novella and five stories, which......

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