20 JULY 1974, page 23

Chinese Boxes And Other Novels

Peter Ackroyd Chimera John Barth (Andre Deutsch £2.75) The Voice of the Crab Geraldine Halls (Constable £2.75) There is nothing particularly ignoble in a novelist being......

Talking Of Books

Work in Progress Benny Green If there is anything more pathetic than a completed novel which remains.unpublished, it is a Published novel which remans uncompleted. In one way......

A Little Panel For The Chapel Of A Castle (after Mantegua)

P art of where the hand ties has an instigation of minerals, vapors and popish substances There is the head Whose variousness contains calm like sand and the profile resembles......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend Saxon House is a newish general publishing imprint owned by the American-backed firm of D. C. Heath. They launched themselves last year with a party On the River Thames......