30 APRIL 1983, page 26

Compelling

Miranda Seymour man has been writing a supposedly sed- itious book about the controllers of his town while living in the house of a recently widowed woman. For this double......

A Feast

Kay Dick The Philosopher's Pupil Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Windus £7.95) T here is a delicious dog in Iris Murdoch's new novel. His name is Zed, a papilla)? with `dainty long hair,......