25 MAY 1974, page 23

Fiction

Life is a drag Peter Ackroyd Royo County Robert Roper (Andre Deutsch £1.75) Regiment of Women Thomas Berger (EYr e Methuen £2.75) There was once a poem, in those days when......

Talking Of Books

Victoriana , tlenny Green N i 2thing could be more self-defeating than the n d of critical work which tries to place the ;'-reative artist under a glass dome of social......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The travelling 'circus descended last week on Eastbourne (we are of course referring to the annual Booksellers Conference) and a much improved affair it was, with a......