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,
“... the Kerguelen Islands in the South Indian Ocean which is the goal of Alan Sillitoe’s expedition. Maurice Gee’s New Zealand is neither fantastic nor stark, and there is little room in it for the primeval. But the vision which he achieves in Sole Survivor has the clarity of an image seen through the wrong end of a telescope. The names, of places and of ... ”
