27 JANUARY 1973, page 13

Unwanted Books In Fiction And Fact

Auberon Waugh The Abortion: An Historical Romance Richard Brautigan (Cape £1.95) Prophecy and the Parasites John Symonds (Duckworth £4.80) Car Harry Crews (Secker and Warburg......

Pharaoh From The Foreign Office

Harold Beeley The Killearn Diaries, 1934-1946 edited by Trefor Evans (Sidgwick and Jackson £5.95) First as Sir Miles Lampson and later as Lord Killearn, the author of this diary......