15 JANUARY 1983, page 23

Perfectionist

Francis King Pictures of Fidelman Bernard Malamud (Chattel & Windus £8.50) A lthough I did not come across this novel, now reissued in a Collected Edition of Bernard Malamud's......

Holy City

James Cameron Banaras: City of Light Diana L. Eck (Routledge & Kegan Paul £14.50) rIne of the oldest and greatest cities in V the world, set almost in the dead centre of India,......