27 OCTOBER 1984, page 28

No Aspern Papers

A. N. Wilson According to Mark Penelope Lively (Heinemann £8.95) T he Mark of the story is a biographer, Mark Lamming, who is writing the life of an Edwardian man of letters......

Whistler's Father & Co.

Ferdinand Mount The Smiths of Moscow Harvey Pitcher (Swallow House, 37 Bernard Road, Cromer, £5.95) W hat am I bid for a manuscript, original and unpublished, telling the story......