Patrick Parrinder, 7 August 1986
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth.
Faber, 307 pp., £9.95, June 1986, 0 571 13967 1Show More The Haunted House by Rebecca Brown.
Picador, 139 pp., £8.95, June 1986, 0 330 29175 0Show More Whole of a Morning Sky by Grace Nichols.
Virago, 156 pp., £9.95, July 1986, 0 86068 774 0Show More The Piano Tuner by Peter Meinke.
Georgia, 156 pp., $13.95, June 1986, 0 8203 0844 7Show More Tap City by Ron Abell.
Secker, 273 pp., £10.95, July 1986, 0 436 00025 3Show More “... comics. A heroine looking back at her city in ruins.’ According to one of the stories in Peter Meinke’s collection The Piano Tuner, drinks in a certain Paris café come in three sizes: demi, sérieux and formidable. Grace Nichols’s novel is definitely sérieux. Meinke’s own comparatively stylised studies ...”
