Mystery and Imagination
Stephen Bann, 17 November 1983
The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill and John Lawrence.
Hamish Hamilton, 160 pp., £7.95, October 1983,0 241 10987 6 Show More
by Susan Hill and John Lawrence.
Hamish Hamilton, 160 pp., £7.95, October 1983,
The Lost Flying Boat
by Alan Sillitoe.
Granada, 288 pp., £8.95, October 1983,0 246 12236 6 Show More
by Alan Sillitoe.
Granada, 288 pp., £8.95, October 1983,
Snow, and Other Stories
by Antony Lambton.
Quartet, 134 pp., £6.95, September 1983,0 7043 2407 5 Show More
by Antony Lambton.
Quartet, 134 pp., £6.95, September 1983,
New Islands, and Other Stories
by Maria Luisa Bombal, translated by Richard Cunningham, Lucia Cunningham and Jorge Luis Borges.
Faber, 112 pp., £8.50, October 1983,0 571 12052 0 Show More
by Maria Luisa Bombal, translated by Richard Cunningham, Lucia Cunningham and Jorge Luis Borges.
Faber, 112 pp., £8.50, October 1983,
The Antarctica Cookbook
by Crispin Kitto.
Duckworth, 190 pp., £7.95, October 1983,0 7156 1762 1 Show More
by Crispin Kitto.
Duckworth, 190 pp., £7.95, October 1983,
“... implications that distinguish it as a work of mid to late career. It is hardly surprising that Antony Lambton’s Snow, and Other Stories should come across as one-dimensional by comparison. The author has a disturbing habit of picking up characters, polishing them assiduously in such a way as to secure our attention, and then abandoning them ... ”
