11 DECEMBER 1993, page 40

Recent First Novels

James Walton M ark Frost, American film director and co-creator of Twin Peaks, cannot be accused of playing it safe with his first novel. Set in 1884, it begins with Arthur......

The Austrian Queen

Philip Mansel MARIE ANTOINE 11 ' E, by Ian Dunlop Sinclair-Stevenson, f20, pp. 410 T he ceremonial hall in the Hofburg in Innsbruck contains one of the finest sets of dynastic......