Hopkins' land of shadows

Anthony Hopkins: A Three-act Life, by Michael Feeney Callan, Robson Books, €27.70.

Welsh-born actor, and now American citizen, Anthony Hopkins is locked into the public imagination as either an anally retentive, emotionally repressed Englishman unable to hurt a fly (the butler in the 1993 film The Remains of the Day, or as CS Lewis in Shadowlands, made in that same year) or else as the horrific psychopath Hannibal Lector, in the 1991 film ...