11 MAY 1974, page 18

Fiction

Real lives Peter Ackroyd Married Lives Harry Kressing (Faber £2.95) The Living Daylights Jill Neville (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.50) A novel which almost opens on the line With......

Talking Of Books

Enter Psmith Benny Green Two years ago I was taken to task by friends and readers for suggesting in these columns that there may have been moments in his life when P. G.......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend Bookbuyer is fully conscious of the importance ot showing proper reverence to the departed , but the organisers of the annual Nice Book Fair seem to be going a little......