2 MAY 1981, page 27

Fiction

Back to the cradle Paul Ableman Creation Gore Vidal (Heinemann pp. 510, £8.95) Gore Vidal has always been interested in origins. In Julian, he dealt with the origins of......

Fertility Rites

Isabel Colegate The China Egg Gillian Tindall (Hodder & Stoughton pp. 192, £6.95). Tit for Tat Verity Bargate (Cape pp. 167, £5.95). A novel of 55,000 words is supposed by most......