5 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 30

Somebody's Best Book Yet

Laurence Lerner MENSONGE by Malcolm Bradbury Deutsch, £5.95 T he death of the author poses a tricky problem for those authors who are still alive. If it is language that speaks......

A Bed Full Of Dewdrops

Frances Partridge CYNTHIA ASQUITH by Nicola Beauman Hamish Hamilton, f15.95 T he addict of biographies, always eager to make a new friend and follow the dramatic course of his......