17 MAY 1975, page 13

Film Fun

Barry Norman Eadweard Muybridge the Father of the Motion Picture Gordon Hendricks (Secker and Warburg £7.50) If we are to look determinedly on the bright side, at least we can......

'birders

Joyce Grenfell Birds of Town and Suburb Eric Simms (Collins £3.50) As its title implies this is a book written about birds in London and other cities, and inner and outer......

Fiction

Traditional Peter Ackroyd A Division of the Spoils Paul Scott (Heinemann £4.90) First Love, Last Rites Ian McEwen (Jonathan Cape £2.50) Paul Scott's new novel opens with a......