25 MAY 1991, page 34

The Lascivious Pleasing Of A Flute

Charlotte Joll POLO S ince the publication of her first block- buster novel, Riders, Jilly Cooper has had a problem: how to re-create as compulsive a hero as Rupert Campbell......

Seeking Out The Liverpool Of The East

William Dalrymple A GODDESS IN THE STONES by Norman Lewis Cape, £14.99, pp. 322 D ifferent travel writers search for different grails. Ryszard Kapuscinski is fascinated by......

Wish

I wish people wouldn't tell me How much better I am. It makes"me wonder How worse I was. Susan Harwood......