2 APRIL 1988, page 27

The Kitchen Table

In memory of my mother Making a home was what you could do best; and cookery (the ritual at the heart of it) you had a kind of genius for. So what I first recall, thinking of......

Books

Secreted in White's Hugh Trevor-Roper THE SECRET SERVANT: THE LIFE OF SIR STEWART MENZIES, CHURCHILL'S SPYMASTER by Anthony Cave Brown Michael Joseph, £19.95 S tewart Menzies......

0 Uncommon Alan Bennett

Patrick Skene Catling TALKING HEADS by Alan Bennett BBC, f4.95 I don't know why it should be only Catholics who are thought never to escape their religious upbringing,' Alan......