24 NOVEMBER 1990, page 48

Old, Unhappy Far-off Things And Battles

Ross Clark THE SPECTATOR ANNUAL edited by Fiona Glass Grafton, £14.99, pp. 242 THE BEDSIDE GUARDIAN edited by Nicholas de Jongh Fourth Estate, £12.99, pp. 328 T he trouble with......

With Sobs And Tears He Sorted Out. .

Andro Linklater THE SORROW OF BELGIUM by Hugo Claus Viking, £14.99, pp. 603 D uring the first world war my father served as a private soldier on the Western Front, an experience......

For Paul Potts

"On mornings with no money but The summer" 's how I see you, Paul, Holy liar lighting up The true behind the factual: An obsessed, imaginative Compassion seeking out the real......