21 SEPTEMBER 1974, page 21

Fiction

Old lines Peter Ackroyd Winter Kills Richard Condon (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £2.65) Ward 402 Ronald J. Glasser (Garnstone Press £2.95) Gone in the Head Ian Cochrane (Routledge......

Talking Of Books

Long shorts Uenny Green Most authors will tell you that when an idea reveals itself to them, it arrives with its own length implicit in its own theme, which means that if the......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The English Arts Council has taken a good deal of stick for its miserly support of the printed word, and often quite justifiably so. But it deserves full marks for......