19 APRIL 1997, page 39

The Sins Of The Father

Selina Hastings THE KISS: A SECRET LIFE by Kathryn Harrison Fourth Estate, £14.99, pp. 207 T he story Kathryn Harrison tells in The Kiss is so terrible that I felt guilty at......

Flight Of The Christians

Philip Marsden FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN by William Dalrymple HarperCollins, £18, pp. 483 F or several hundred years, under the capricious thumb of the sultan, the peoples of the......