4 NOVEMBER 1989, page 25

Cast A Cold" Eye, On Life, On Death

Frances Spalding BITTER FAME: A LIFE OF SYLVIA PLATH by Anne Stevenson Viking, f15.95, pp. 413 N ot many novelists, sitting down to write a 'pot boiler' as Sylvia Plath did with......

Reducing All That's Made . . .

Richard Ingrams YOURS ETC by Graham Greene Reinhardt Books, £14.95, pp.269 T here are signs of barrel-scraping in the Graham Greene industry, the latest pro- duct of which is......

... To A Greene Thought In A Greene Shade

Gabriele Annan WHY THE EPIGRAPH? by Graham Greene Viking, £30, pp.48 T his is an odd book — a book for book collectors, perhaps. First of all, it is expen- sive: £30 for 48......