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,
“... for the marvellous combined effect of limpidity and obscurity which Maria Luisa Bombal creates. Crispin Kitto’s The Antarctica Cookbook is more of a confidence trick than a novel. But the reason why such a shoddy piece of writing should be easy, even attractive to read is worthy of a little – just a little – attention. Novelists from ... ”
