20 OCTOBER 2007, page 47

The Godfather Of The Steppes

Jonathan Mirsky THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with a foreword by Elaine Feinstein Hesperus, £6.99, pp. 131, ISBN......

The Golden Writer

Doris Lessing was last week awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Philip Hensher traces the career of 'one of the greatest novelists in English'. Doris Lessing's Nobel win......

Yard Sale

Oh, but it is incalculable — this side yard full of her things laid out on folding tables ranged along a chain link fence. Her Tupperware cake saver takes precedence over egg......