6 OCTOBER 1979, page 30

Impressionist

Francis King The Skaters' Waltz Philip Norman (Hamish Hamilton £5.95) Carrying an epigraph from Baudelaire, 'PM plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mule ans', this book......

Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald (collins £4.50) Brothers At...

(Collins £4.50) Penelope Fitzgerald prefaces her new novel about houseboat-dwellers on the Thames with a slyly apposite quotation from Dante; it comes from the point where Dante......