5 NOVEMBER 1994, page 49

Now They're Fifty-four

William Mount SUMMER OF LOVE: THE MAKING OF SGT PEPPER by George Martin, with William Pearson Macmillan, £14.99, pp. 176 BMW I n my adolescence, I used to try to get people to......

Who Would Bear The Whips . . .

the insolence of office? Alan Watkins A BAG OF BOILED SWEETS by Julian Critchley Faber, f17.50, pp. 244 W ith every year that passes, the more accepted becomes the view that the......

Unable To Abide His Frost

Stephen Spender THE ONE AND ONLY by Francis King Constable, f14.99, pp. 208 T he central character of this novel is a spoiled and silly woman, Mrs Frost, whose husband is a......