2 NOVEMBER 1991, page 48

This I Know For The Bible Tells Me So

A. N. Wilson THE UNAUTHORIZED VERSION by Robin Lane Fox Viking, 120, pp.478 I n May 1991, Robin Lane Fox shared with the readers of the Financial Times an exciting new discovery......

Agents And Patience

Patrick Skene Catling HARLOT'S GHOST by Norman Mailer Michael Joseph, £15.99, pp. 1,122 T his is not, after all, The Great American Novel — but it is certainly A Very Big......

The Old Captain I Hear Him Sometimes Pacing The Bridge,

a familiar, distracted humming, Like a bee drone. He halts, turns As if whistling up a dog, thinks better Of it. The pacing resumes. Waves like tin, discarded violins, Play......