19 MAY 1973, page 16

Anything But Novels

Tony Palmer The Send - Off Christopher Leach (Chatto and Windus E1.60) A Woman named Solitude Andre SchwarzBart (Secker and Warburg £1.95) It's amazing what passes for a novel......

Bookend

Bookbuyer The Bullock Committee of Inquiry into Reading is not expected to publish its findings until next Spring — in time for the NUT and NAS conferences — but already it has......