7 AUGUST 1999, page 36

Restoration, Creation And Imagination

Henry Hobhouse P erhaps because they live in such a Crowd with not much more than an acre of good land each, the English try to compose in their gardens an illusion of space by......

Recent Audio Books

Peter Levi T hirty years ago, I remember being puz- zled and excited by The Alexandria Quartet, but that was because I knew Lawrence Durrell and had admired him since the war as......

Since Writing This Review, Natasha Spender's House And...

Mas St Jerome have been devastated by fierce bush fire, whipped up by the mistral and needing 1,000 pompiers to control it. Most of the house, much of the interior and all the......