24 DECEMBER 1988, page 74

My Table Thou Hast Furnished

David Ekserdjian THE ALTARPIECE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY by Jacob Burckhardt edited by Peter Humfrey Phaidon, £75, pp.240 P eter Humfrey could probably sell sand to a sheik. Anyone......

Thrillers

Dial ex for murder Harriet Waugh M urder in Paradise by Ann Cleeves (Century, £10.95, pp.181), while not the best crime novel I have read this year, is the best detective novel.......