Pooh to London
Pat Rogers, 22 December 1983
The Other Side of the Fire
by Alice Thomas Ellis.
Duckworth, 156 pp., £7.95, November 1983,0 7156 1809 1 Show More
by Alice Thomas Ellis.
Duckworth, 156 pp., £7.95, November 1983,
London Tales
edited by Julian Evans.
Hamish Hamilton, 309 pp., £8.95, October 1983,0 241 11123 4 Show More
edited by Julian Evans.
Hamish Hamilton, 309 pp., £8.95, October 1983,
“... is nothing with stronger criminal intent than the genteel purloining of a typescript, except in Desmond Hogan’s ‘Elysium’, where the heroine shacks up with an Irish terrorist. Hogan inclines towards a rather woozy poetry, but at least he reaches beyond the domestic mode omnipresent in the other stories: An outrage was done in this house once. A young ... ”