15 JUNE 1974, page 23

Fiction

Consumer durables Peter Ackroyd Thirty-Four East Alfred Coppel (Macmillan £2.75) The Radish Memoirs Terence de Vere White (Gollancz £2.25). Why is it always in the socialist......

Talking Of Books

Think thin Benny Green Reading The Thin Man (Penguin Crime 30p) again after so many years is like finding my adolescent brain standing on the shelf of a long-forgotten cupboard,......

Spectator On Holiday

When you are on holiday, at home or abroad, you can still receive your Spectator. Send Your address and 19p per copy to the Sales Manager, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend Everyone seems to be talking about the World Cup, due to start in Munich this week. It is difficult to see why when here, on our very own doorstep, we have in prospect......