7 SEPTEMBER 1985, page 18

Hell In The Classroom

Emma Gilbey finds that as the new term begins pay is the least of her problems LIKE Ursula in D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow I approached my first year's teaching with starry-eyed......

An Extravagance Of Curiosity

Travellers: A profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor, soldier, writer and architect PATRICK Leigh Fermor is something of a phenomendn — the kind of man that English society tips out of......

Shiva Naipaul

The Spectator is establishing an annual prize in memory of Shiva Naipaul, details of which are still to be worked out, though it will be awarded to a young writer. In addition......