5 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 33

An Anglican Bishop

This Church of England bishop knows the way to makes his many doubts a source of praise. Promoting every creed and each new craze, he leads his flock where they were wont to......

A Hard Actor To Follow

Robert Cushman CHARLES LAUGHTON: A DIFFICULT ACTOR by Simon Callow Methuen, £14.95 I wish I could act as well as Simon Callow writes. This is a wonderfully neat, vivacious and......

When Things Come To A Head

Anita Brookner THE CASE OF THOMAS N. by John David Morley Andre Deutsch, f9.95 H ere is a genuine curiosity, a novel apparently guided by the presiding spirits of Kafka, Freud,......