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“... person plods an allegorical path, pursued by flying monks or alchemical vivisectors. Thus, R.M. Lamming has won a prize with The Notebook of Gismondo Cavaletti, a dramatic monologue delivered by a miserable, deformed person in 16th-century Florence, with Savonarola getting burnt, Leonardo da Vinci being callously scientific and plenty of beautiful ...”

“... haunt, as one turns the pages of Colegate’s new book, and of new fiction by other writers. R.M. Lamming’s In The Dark certainly comes off poorly if the Colegate test is applied. It’s Lamming’s second book; I don’t know the first, The Notebook of Gismondo Cavaletti, but it won the David Higham Prize and is ...”