30 NOVEMBER 1962, page 20

Nabokov's Blueprint

Pale Fire. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) IN the American University of Wordsmith lives an eminent and ageing poet, John Shade, who has a bossing wife......

Chilly Fever

In the Fiery Continent. By Tom Hopkinson. (Gollancz, 30s.) In the Fiery Continent. By Tom Hopkinson. (Gollancz, 30s.) MR. TOM HOPKINSON'S African autobiography In the Fiery......