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CONTENTS ROSEMARY 0INNAGE, the ·author of Tire Ruffia~~ on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Viking/ Penguin 1991), is a freelance journalist l iving m London and reluctantly specialising in psychoanalysis. Her earlier book One to Oue: Experiences in Psychoanalysis came from the same publisher. EDWARD PEARCE whose political treatise Machiavel/i's Children (Gollancz) was respectfully reviewed by Peter Aspden in the November 1993 issue, is engaged on a political novel about lives under a Tory government in the year 2001 , tentat ively ca ll ed Midtright Blue. Meanwhile , he writes regularly in the New Statesman and the Guardian, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC's admirable Moral Maze. jULIAN O'HALLORAN, as a television reporter first on Newsnight, now Panorama, has made various current affairs films about South Africa and its appalling plight. KATE SAUNDERS has just signed a contract for four novels with Century and is buckling down to the first of them which, we may exclusively report, will have a contemporary rather than a historical setting. Her last novel, Night Shall Overtake Us, was reviewed by Amanda Cra ig in the June 1993 issue. Meanwhile , she gratefully accepts whatever crusts the Sutrday Times may throw towards her. R oRY R oss is Tat/er's Restaurant Editor as well as writing a restaurant column in ES. He also writes about travel and motoring for the Telegraph and general feature s everywhere. In what little spare time is left he plays football, watches motor racing and sculls on the River Thames. FROM THE PULPIT 1 AUBERON WAUGH PREDATORS SICKNESS & DEATH PURPOSE OF LIFE FICTION MEET THE AUTHOR RESURRECTION 4 FRANCIS WHEEN Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC Chris Horrie & Steve Clarke 5 EDWARD PEARCE Brewer's Politics (Ed) Nicholas Comfort 6 ANDREW BrLLEN A Parliamentary Affair Edwina Currie 8 JANE CHARTERIS The Book of Spiders: From Arachnophobia to the Love of Spiders Paul Hillyard 10 ROSEMARY DINNAGE How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Sherwin B Nuland 12 DUNCAN MINSHULL A Medical Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain Louis Appleby 13 COLIN WrLSON Pictures at an Execution W endy Lesser 14 RoRY Ross The Faber Book of Food (Eds) Colin Spencer & Claire Clifton 16 BRYAN APPLEYARD The Inner Game Dominic Lawson 17 J OHN KEMP Collecting: An Unruly Passion Wemer Muensterberger 20 SusAN ELKIN The Pan Prindple Fiona Pitt-Kethley 21 DAvm V BARRETI The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert 22 Mi.LES DONALD A Sailor's View of Live Yeshu Martin Lucey 23 FRANCIS KING The Master of Petersburg J M Coetzee 24 SusAN JEFFREYS The First Church of the New Millennium Bryan Appleyard 25 KATE SAUNDERS The Fermata Nicolson Baker 26 GEOFF NICHOLSON America by Land Robert Olrnstead 27 DEBORAH BOSLEY Daddy's Girl Janet lnglis 28 CLARISSA BURDEN Entertaining Angels Marita van der Vyver 30 GLYN BROWN Come To Me: Stories by Amy Bloom 31 PAUL ST JOHN MACKINTOSH The Plum in the Golden Vase (Translated) David Tod Roy 32 TIMOTHY WrLSON-SMITH New Blazing World and Other Writings Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Ed) Kate Lilley LETTERS 34 LETTER FROM ST PETERSBURG 35 JEREMY NOBLE Editor: AUBERON WAUGH Deputy Editor: LOLA BUBBOSH Business Manager & Boxwallah: RoBERT PosNER Chief Editorial Assistant and Deputy Manager: NANCY SLADEK Advertising Manager: CLIFF KIMBER General Assistant: Jo CRAVEN Designer: jACQUI McDONOUGH Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton Issue no. 188 LITERARY REVIEW February 1994
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--- · ------------------~ FEBRUARY 1 994 SHORT STORY GENERAL PAPERBACKS SHORT FICTION BIOGRAPHY BOOKSElLER c~ 37 FAY WELDON The Pardoner 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 jULIAN O'HALLORAN The Rift: The Exile Experience of South Africans Hilda Bemstein HILARY MANTEL Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages Georges Duby NICOLA BEAUMAN Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service Clive Dewey jONATHAN FOREMAN Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France Sunil Khilnani ALAIN DE BOTTON Fathers and Daughters Sue Sharpe PATRICK O'CONNOR Berlin Cabaret Peter Jelavich ANTONY WOODWARD LAst of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard Samantha W einberg 50 51 51 52 WENDY ROWLAND MIKE PETTY Now That You're Back A L Kennedy EMMA GUINNESS The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie ESTHER KAPOSI Love is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance (Eds) Joel Rose & Catherine Texier Seduction (Ed) Tony Peake 54 56 57 FRANK MCLYNN Hardy: The Difinitive Biography Marrin Seymour-Smith SusAN ELKIN Christina Rossetti Frances Thomas THERESA MAYHEW 57 PHlLIP 0AKES BEll.ES LETTRES 59 59 60 61 SILENCED VOICES 62 POETRY COMPETITION 63 AND RESULTS TIM RicE Craig Brown's Greatest Hits Craig Brown MARY SCOTT Literary Englands: Versions of'Englishness' in Modern Writing David Gervais PETER BOTTOMLEY The Selling of Mary Davies and Other Writings Simonjenkins GEOFFREY MACNAB Revolution and the Form of the British Novel NicolaJ Watson SIOBHAN Down ANDREW BILLEN is a freelance writer on the Observer. He writes a weekly interview in the Observer Maga z ine. TIM RICE, who won an Oscar for h.is Wait Disney version of Aladdin, now looks forward to the American opening of his new anima ted film, also with Wait Disney, The Lion King, with music by Elton John . This will be in June. In April he may be touring the West In dies as an expert on cricket. His l ife's ambition, to produce someth.ing with out music and without collabo r ation, seems no closer to ach.ievement. MILES DONALD has a beard. He comes into the office quite often and makes helpful suggestions. GLYN BROWN is a writer and critic . She won the 1991 Time 011t Short Story Competition and her fiction has appeared in a number of collect ion s. She has just completed her first novel, T11e Fabulo11s Wild. HILARY MANTEL's novel about South Africa , A Change of Climate (Viking, £15) , will be published on March 31st. She has almost finished a new novel, as yet untitled , and despite a bad chest infection wh.ich has left her speechless at th e time of going to press, she is also writing a screenp lay for Fludd, her fourth novel. FRANCIS WHEEN whose best-selling Chatto Book cif Cats inspired William Rushton's cover picture for November's Literary Review , has joined SNIP, the Society for Neutering Islington Pussies. While his two toms, Whimsey and Wooster, worry about this, he writes a weekly political column in the Observer Magazine and a monthly one in Rosie Boycott's Esquire. The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 51 Beak Street, London W1R 3LF Tel: 071 437 9392 Fax: 071 734 1844 ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries to: Literary Review Subscriptions, 51 Beak Street, London W1R 3LF Tel: 071 437 9392 Fax: 071 734 1844. USA Airspeed subscription price is $32 (S54)for 12 issues. Second class postage paid at South Hackensack N]. Postmaster: send address changes to Literary Review, Royal Mail International, c/o Yellowstone, 2375 Pratt Blvd., Elk Grove Village IL 60007. All advertising enquiries to: Literary Review Advertising, 51 Beak Street, London W1R 3LF Tel: 071 437 9392 Fax: 071 734 1844 Printed by Simpson Drewett & Co Ltd, 70 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1UF Tel : 081 940 7441 Fax: 081 948 8749 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by UMD Ltd, 1 Benwell Road, London N7 7AX Tel: 071 700 4600 Fax: 071 607 3352 Distributed to bookshops by Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 Tel: 081 986 4854 LITERARY REVIEW February 1994

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CONTENTS

ROSEMARY 0INNAGE, the ·author of Tire Ruffia~~ on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Viking/ Penguin 1991), is a freelance journalist l iving m London and reluctantly specialising in psychoanalysis. Her earlier book One to Oue: Experiences in Psychoanalysis came from the same publisher.

EDWARD PEARCE whose political treatise Machiavel/i's Children (Gollancz) was respectfully reviewed by Peter Aspden in the November 1993 issue, is engaged on a political novel about lives under a Tory government in the year 2001 , tentat ively ca ll ed Midtright Blue. Meanwhile , he writes regularly in the New Statesman and the Guardian, as well as being a regular panellist on BBC's admirable Moral Maze.

jULIAN O'HALLORAN, as a television reporter first on Newsnight, now Panorama, has made various current affairs films about South Africa and its appalling plight.

KATE SAUNDERS has just signed a contract for four novels with Century and is buckling down to the first of them which, we may exclusively report, will have a contemporary rather than a historical setting. Her last novel, Night Shall Overtake Us, was reviewed by Amanda Cra ig in the June 1993 issue. Meanwhile , she gratefully accepts whatever crusts the Sutrday Times may throw towards her.

R oRY R oss is Tat/er's Restaurant Editor as well as writing a restaurant column in ES. He also writes about travel and motoring for the Telegraph and general feature s everywhere. In what little spare time is left he plays football, watches motor racing and sculls on the River Thames.

FROM THE PULPIT

1 AUBERON WAUGH

PREDATORS

SICKNESS & DEATH

PURPOSE OF LIFE

FICTION

MEET THE AUTHOR

RESURRECTION

4 FRANCIS WHEEN Fuzzy Monsters: Fear and Loathing at the BBC

Chris Horrie & Steve Clarke 5 EDWARD PEARCE Brewer's Politics (Ed) Nicholas Comfort 6 ANDREW BrLLEN A Parliamentary Affair Edwina Currie 8 JANE CHARTERIS The Book of Spiders: From Arachnophobia to the

Love of Spiders Paul Hillyard

10 ROSEMARY DINNAGE How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final

Chapter Sherwin B Nuland 12 DUNCAN MINSHULL A Medical Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain Louis Appleby 13 COLIN WrLSON Pictures at an Execution W endy Lesser

14 RoRY Ross The Faber Book of Food (Eds) Colin Spencer &

Claire Clifton 16 BRYAN APPLEYARD The Inner Game Dominic Lawson 17 J OHN KEMP Collecting: An Unruly Passion Wemer

Muensterberger 20 SusAN ELKIN The Pan Prindple Fiona Pitt-Kethley 21 DAvm V BARRETI The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids Robert Bauval & Adrian Gilbert 22 Mi.LES DONALD A Sailor's View of Live Yeshu Martin Lucey

23 FRANCIS KING The Master of Petersburg J M Coetzee 24 SusAN JEFFREYS The First Church of the New Millennium Bryan

Appleyard 25 KATE SAUNDERS The Fermata Nicolson Baker 26 GEOFF NICHOLSON America by Land Robert Olrnstead 27 DEBORAH BOSLEY Daddy's Girl Janet lnglis 28 CLARISSA BURDEN Entertaining Angels Marita van der Vyver

30 GLYN BROWN Come To Me: Stories by Amy Bloom

31 PAUL ST JOHN MACKINTOSH The Plum in the Golden Vase

(Translated) David Tod Roy 32 TIMOTHY WrLSON-SMITH New Blazing World and Other

Writings Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Ed) Kate Lilley

LETTERS

34

LETTER FROM ST PETERSBURG

35 JEREMY NOBLE

Editor: AUBERON WAUGH Deputy Editor: LOLA BUBBOSH Business Manager & Boxwallah: RoBERT PosNER Chief Editorial Assistant and Deputy Manager: NANCY SLADEK

Advertising Manager: CLIFF KIMBER

General Assistant: Jo CRAVEN Designer: jACQUI McDONOUGH

Publisher: NAIM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton

Issue no. 188

LITERARY REVIEW February 1994

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