19 NOVEMBER 1983, page 41

Scent And Spume

Peter Quennell Pierre Loti: Portrait of an Escapist Lesley Blanch (Collins £12.50) rlarrying home two massive volumes of the Oeuvres Completes de Pierre Loti, I met on the bus a......

Fairy Fingers

John Michell The Stars and the Stones Martin Brennan (Thames & Hudson £12) M artin Brennan is a New York artist who studied Shintoism in Japan and was advised by his teachers......

Thrillers

Harriet. Waugh The Last Supper Charles McCarry (Hutchinson £8.95) A Flaw in the System R.B. Dominic (Macmillan £6.95) The Name of Annabel Lee Julian Symons (Macmillan £6.95)......