23 MAY 1987, page 49

Penny, Louisa, Daphne And Alice

Anita Brookner THE LAST ROMANTICS by Caroline Seebohm Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f10.95 0 ne of the curious facts about women is that, to judge from the recent spate of novels on......

From Child's Play To Murder

Harriet Waugh TALKING TO STRANGERS by Ruth Rendell Hutchinson, £10 s Ruth Rendell killing the appetite of her readers with her creative largesse? Last year she produced two......

A Time-bomb Of Nostalgia

Andrei Navrozov THE RUSSIAN ALBUM by Michael Ignatieff Chatto &Windus, f12.95 A mongst the priority items on the new agenda of Gorbachev's propagandists is the aim of misleading......