6 DECEMBER 1997, page 54

Disney Or Euripides?

James Simmons THE ZIG ZAG KID by David Grossman Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 309 D avid Grossman is an Israeli writer whose past work has been much admired in translation in Europe.......

Ladders And Horizons

Robert Cranborne THE HOUSE OF LORDS by John Wells Hodder, £20, pp. 298 A ll successful institutions, regiments, palaces, Houses of Parliament, combine pomp and informality. That......