10 NOVEMBER 1973, page 19

Defying The Conventions

Peter Ackroyd Elizabeth Alone William Trevor (Bodley Head £2.50). Richard's Things Frederic Raphael (Cape £2.25). I have never had a hysterectomy, and I never hope to have one;......

More And Still More

Blair Worden The Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation. S. H. Hexter and (Allen Lane E3.50) Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas More's Utopia and Claude de......