20 APRIL 1985, page 31

Harriet Waugh

An Unkindness of Ravens Ruth Rendell (Hutchinson £8.95) Sometimes You Could Die James Mitchell (Hamish Hamilton £8.95) The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie E. V. Cunningham......

Patrick Skene Catling

bliophi I y, the most benign of addic- tions, can be induced just outside the cradle and expected to persist to the death-bed. The quality of the life-long influence of books......