29 APRIL 1989, page 29

. . . But I Prefer Reading

Mark Amory BRIDGE: TRICKS OF THE TRADE by Terence Reese and David Bird Gollanez, £8.95, pp.144 R eading about bridge has several advantages over playing it: no waiting, no cross......

Books

The clubbable outsider Duncan Fallowell WILLIE: THE LIFE OF SOMERSET MAUGHAM by Robert Calder Heinemann, £15, pp.429 T d Morgan's Maugham (1980) gave us the man's essential......

West Penwith I.m. Kit Barker

Cold lapis lazuli, Rocks hung above a cove, A harbour that the sea Labours to remove, And day by day succeeds. All that was long ago: Time changes, and times change; Only an......