5 MAY 1984, page 23

Gallant She-soldiers

Isabel Colegate The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England Antonia Fraser (W eidenfeld and Nicolson £12.95) o f women's unnatural, insatiable lust,' wrote......

No Home For Mr Biswas

Ferdinand Mount Fi nding the Centre: Two Narratives (Andre Deutsch £7.95) V. S. Naipaul D oes man qualify as a migratory species? Or are human migrations too random, violent and......