1 NOVEMBER 1975, page 19

Fiction

Blood and thunder Peter Ackroyd The King's Servant John Gardner (Jonathan Cape £3.95) Stephen Decatur, the Devil and the Endymion Brian Burland (George Allen and Unwin £3.95)......

Talking Of Fiction

Sweet dreams Benny Green Ever since Dr Freud started to frighten the life out of everybody, we have become so nervous about the revelations of our subconscious that even the......

Bookend

It was chivalrous of Messrs Macmillan to take over the Stationers Hall to tiste the seventieth birthday of C. P. Snow — and, since it was a champagne evening, not cheap. With a......