23 OCTOBER 1999, page 58

A Joker And A Card

Allan Massie FATHER, DEAR FATHER: LIFE WITH WOODROW WYATT by Petronella Wyatt Hutchinson, £15.99, pp. 244 T he News of the World billed Woodrow Wyatt as 'the Voice of Reason'.......

Tales Of Derring-do

Peter Levi T hese tapes are an extraordinary series, all chosen by Sue Rodwell, who deserves a medal. It is extremely hard to describe their contents and the naming of each tape......

To Do Our Country Loss

C. J. Tyerman TRIAL BY FIRE: THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR, VOLUME II by Jonathan Sumption Faber, £30, pp. 704 T he Hundred Years war provides some of the most memorable and familiar......