6 NOVEMBER 1993, page 53

Another Master Of The Short Story

Francis King WHERE I'M CALLING FROM by Raymond Carver Harvill, £8.99, pp.431 E ven in his earliest stories, written in the Seventies, Raymond Carver had already set his......

Holding The Mirror Up To Nature

Francis Wheen ASKING AROUND: BACKGROUND TO THE DAVID HARE TRILOGY by David Hare Faber, £8.99, pp. 250 I n the days before pocket calculators and computers, pupils sitting maths......

Denis Hills At Eighty

Rowland Ryder D enis Hills' deeds and misdeeds at King Edward's Birmingham have become part of the school folklore: flicking off the hats of railway porters; retrieving tennis......