9 MAY 1981, page 27

Red Menace

A. N. Wilson A Summer in the Twenties Peter Dickinson (Hodder & Stoughton pp. 254, £6.95). Tis sixty years since was the sub-title of Waverley. It is the perfect distance from......

Sow's Ear

John Stewart Collis Autobiographies Sean O'Casey (Macmillan, 2 vols., £15 each). The Irish genius is seen best when the light of comedy is thrown upon squalid characters and......