12 OCTOBER 1974, page 23

Fiction

London sighs Peter Ackroyd The Camberwell Beauty V. S. Pritchett (Chatto and Windus £3) The Black House Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton £2.75) The Terrors of Dr Trevites Peter......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend The influence of television programmes on books has long been an accepted fact of p romotional life. More recent is the realisation by television producers that "the......

T Alking Of Bookishness

All that jazz 1/e nny Green „, much taken last week by the rich comedy `Readers' Letters' pages of this journal. Or among those epistles a small outrage was h a - :,.' u ltted,......