10 SEPTEMBER 1977, page 20

Local Colour

Richard West The Honourable Schoolboy John Le Carrel (Hodder and Stoughton £4,95) When Ian Fleming's novel You Only Liverwice appeared in 1964 there were strikingly different......

Dear Diary

Peter Ackroyd Speed Boat Renate Adler (Hamlet) Hamilton 23.95) This is the first time you will have heard of it, but there is a new kind of fiction which has nothing to do with......