20 NOVEMBER 1993, Page 39

Isabel Colegate

I have enjoyed Gesualdo Bufalino's Blind Argus (Harvill, £7.99), a marvellously inventive and exuberant Sicilian novel. The translation by Patrick Creagh is quite exceptionally good. I also enjoyed David Cannadine's G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (Fontana, £7.99), a study of a historian and his age which is extremely revealing about both.