24 NOVEMBER 1984, page 29

Pliant Plante

Francis King The Foreigner David Plante (Chatto. & Windus £9.95) God Knows Joseph Heller (Cape £8.95) D avid Plante's last book, Difficult Women, had a rough ride. No one could......

The Lion Of Africa

Richard West Haile Selassie's War Anthony Mockler (Oxford £17.50) S oon after the fall of Prince Norodom , Sihanouk of Cambodia, I went off to Ethiopia, the only other country I......