Out of Africa: Lewis DeSoto's remarkable debut novel marks another instalment of 'elsewhere literature,' fiction written here but set in distant lands. In A Blade of Grass, as in other books of this genre, Toronto plays no obvious part but sits, transparently, like a chameleon on the page

WHEN I TRAVELLED TO ENGLAND in the spring, I stayed with a terribly literary uncle and aunt, he a writer of erudite gardening books, she a freelance editor. Both former […]