7 APRIL 1990, page 43

In Playboy

and the Western world Paul Bailey SELECTED LETTERS 1940-1977 by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Bruccoli Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f29.95, pp.582 T his......

Love

Is it like a carnival with spangles and balloons, Fancy-dress and comic masks and sun-drenched afternoons Without a cloud to spoil the blue perfection of the skies? `Well yes,......

But Several

badly wounded Peregrine Worsthorne NOT MANY DEAD by Nicholas Garland Hutchinson, £16.93, pp.299 T he heroes of this book are the au- thor's two sons who urged him not to write......