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,
“... fine collection is without some comparable finesse of style, and the two translators, Richard and Lucia Cunningham, have worked hard 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 ... ”
