23 JULY 1977, page 25

Good As Goldy

Richard Boston The Notable Man: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith John Ginger (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) The doctors who murdered Byron were far from untypical, for the......

Tosh Mistress

Richard West Nettle and Steele Penelope Dell (Hamish Hamilton .25.50) The reigning queen of heart-throb fiction, Barbara Cartland has written that 'Ethel M. Dell was the first......