19 JUNE 1971, page 18

Syndrome

When the present beach generation Have lost their tans, and are pushing pens In the back room of the supermarket, Putting up with that perpetual winter Called gainful employment......

John Stewart Collis On Three Autobiographers

Tuscan Harvest Vernon Bartlett (Chatto and Windus £1.50) Instead of Contents to Odious Child, Mrs Zinkin gives us Act 1, followed by Scenes t, ill, iv, and v—(no Act it or in).......

Auberon Waugh On New Novels

MF Anthony Burgess (Cape £1.60) Any week which produces a new novel by Anthony Burgess must be ringed in gold on the reviewers' calendar. His latest is about word games and......