The poetry of everyday languageWHEN London butcher Jack Dodds dies three of his old pals, in the company of his abrasive adopted son Vince, set off to satisfy…Sat Jan 13 1996 - 00:00
MS TEMPLE BARDEVELOPMENT is a positive word, even a hopeful one or at least it should be, with its implied promise of improvement.Thu Jan 11 1996 - 00:00
A disarming look at the reality of warIT must be the ugliest of ironies but the horrors of war consistently produce haunting proseWed Jan 10 1996 - 00:00
A curious case of historyMYSTERY and intrigue certainly featured strongly in the chapter of 19th-century French history known as the Panama Canal Scandal…Sat Jan 06 1996 - 00:00
The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono (Harvill, £5.99)In this famous allegorical fable, the narrator recalls a long journey made on foot through Provence some 40 years earlierSat Jan 06 1996 - 00:00
A maverick for the milleniumIN a shrinking world increasingly bereft of original imaginations, the British writer JThu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00
