17 APRIL 1982, page 22

The Things That Are Caesar's

A. N. Wilson D ichard K. Fenn is aptly named, though IN.he could be called Swamp or Bog or simply Mud with equal appropriateness. Wading through his prose is not a great......

Triviality

Kay Dick M r Bowers has embarked on an ambit- ious project: a series of novels about the Russian Revolutions, of which Th„ e , Spark is the fi rst. A gestation period of 4 b......

Green-eyed

Harriet Waugh Before She Met Me Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape £6.50) J ealousy is undignified: an unhappy mixture of violence and petulance. It is unpretty and rarely helps......