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Getting The Point

Christopher Howse THE SPECTATOR BOOK OF EPIGRAMS edited by Dhiren Bhagat Pan, f5.99, pp. 266 I n our impatient age it is time for the epigram to make a comeback, but as Sir......

A Man As A Sometime Thing

Albert Read HARASSMENT by Patrick Skene Catling Bloomsbury, £13.99, pp. 280 T he sensationally good-looking Michael Saques is a young man set adrift in a woman's world. All the......

The Hair And Fingernails Of The Corpse

Peregrine Hodson T he rot probably set in with Homer. The Odyssey has faults that still plague the genre of travel writing: a threadbare plot of departure, tribulation and......