30 APRIL 1988, page 37

This Tumult In The Clouds

Isabel Colegate MARY AND RICHARD: THE STORY OF RICHARD HILLARY AND MARY BOOKER by Michael Burn Deutsch, £12.95, pp. 249 I was seven when the second world war began. We lived in......

To My Seven-year-old Son

You come like anger, harsh-propelled, Too large, too close, too loud, too rough. I think I should reach out to hold Your long, hard limbs which cannot mould. I don't make time,......

Portrait Of The Writer As A Young Artist

Francis King BLUEBEARD by Kurt Vonnegut Cape, £10.95, pp. 300 0 ne of the oddest features of both the economic and artistic history of this cen- tury has been the way in which......