10 FEBRUARY 1996, page 36

How Different From Us

Hilary Mantel THE BICKERSTETH DIARIES: 1914-1918 edited by John Bickersteth, with an introduction by John Terraine Leo Cooper, £21, pp. 332 O n television recently, that......

Snow Folk

Today's different. We rise to fluffy trees, branches penstroked in— and a garden beyond itself. Seat felted, greenhouse lagged. Some cloud's been breaking extra bread, whitening......