Macmillan-St. Martin's Press

1 The Crossing and After Early October England does not begin at the white cliffs of Dover, or even on the steamer at Calais, The latter was in any case French and surprised me with the worst French menu of my life — on the assumption, I suppose, that sooner rather than later it would all...

EDITOR'S NOTE Very short novels are less uncommon than very long stories — perhaps because of the far greater rewards they can bring to their authors. But the latter species is not quite extinct, and I am delighted to be able to publish Patrick White's 'A Woman's Hand' to prove it. It seems to...