6 DECEMBER 1986, page 35

Patrick Skene Catling

Very rarely, a novel sometimes proves to be so enjoyable that tears of sentimental pleasure ooze from the eyes of even the most jaded of readers. One such excep- tional book is......

Alistair Forbes

Since, many pre-Hype-Hype-Huirrah years ago, Cyril Connolly farmed out his pile of Booker Prize jury fodder to me for pre- liminary testing (the only plum I managed to pull out......