27 JANUARY 1990, page 37

The Appeal Of Other People's Awful Families

Anita Brookner THE OTHER SIDE he House of Atreus, which gets a couple of mentions in Mary Gordon's family saga, has nothing on the Macnamar- as, all world-class grumblers and......

Under A Cloud

Jonathan Guinness RICHARD ALDINGTON by Charles Doyle Macmillan, £19.95, pp.400 T . S. Eliot wrote in the early Sixties, after Richard Aldington's death and not long before his......

Hiding His Light In The African Bush

Joseph Hone FILOSOFA'S REPUBLIC by Thursday Msigwa Pickwick Books, £11.95, £5.95, pp.123 H ere is a droll piece of Africana, a spoof, a bonne-bouche, a succession of......