Chinaberry Pie
D.A.N. Jones, 1 March 1984
Speranza
by Sven Delblanc, translated by Paul Britten Austin.
Secker, 153 pp., £7.95, February 1984,9780436126802 Show More
by Sven Delblanc, translated by Paul Britten Austin.
Secker, 153 pp., £7.95, February 1984,
Hanabeke
by Dudley St John Magnus.
Angus and Robertson, 133 pp., £6.95, January 1984,0 207 14565 2 Show More
by Dudley St John Magnus.
Angus and Robertson, 133 pp., £6.95, January 1984,
The English Way of Doing Things
by William Donaldson.
Weidenfeld, 229 pp., £7.95, January 1984,0 297 78345 9 Show More
by William Donaldson.
Weidenfeld, 229 pp., £7.95, January 1984,
“... Biblical references, since, though he makes fun of Bible-readers, he takes the Bible seriously. Sven Delblanc’s Speranza is another foreign novel that may remind us of British genre-parody – especially William Golding’s Rites of Passage, that witty, near-sadistic parody of traditional seafaring yarns. Like Golding’s novel, Speranza begins with ... ”
