Wallahs and Wallabies
Gilbert Phelps, 8 May 1986
The Shakespeare Wallah
by Geoffrey Kendal and Clare Colvin.
Sidgwick, 186 pp., £12.95, March 1986,0 283 99230 1 Show More
by Geoffrey Kendal and Clare Colvin.
Sidgwick, 186 pp., £12.95, March 1986,
Children of the Country: Coast to Coast across Africa
by Joseph Hone.
Hamish Hamilton, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1986,0 241 11742 9 Show More
by Joseph Hone.
Hamish Hamilton, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1986,
“... On the face of it, autobiography and travel should be the simplest forms of literature to write: the facts are there, there is a life or a country to be crossed. Yet they have their own special difficulties of tone and approach, and of all forms they are perhaps the most subject to the fictionality of truth, while paradoxically demanding a core of inner truth if they are to become literature ... ”
