20 APRIL 1974, page 21

Fruits Of Friendship

Gyles Brandreth Friends and Friendship Kay Dick (Sidgisiel ( and Jackson, £2.95) Meeting a personal hero face to face leads all too often to a sense of anti-climax. Heroes in......

Out Of Orbit

Peter Ackroyd The Eighty -Minute Hour Brian Aldiss (Jonathan Cape £2.25) The Boys Henry De Montherlant translated by Terence Kilmartin (Weidenfeld and ,Nicholson £3.25). And now......