20 MAY 1978, page 24

Last Laughs

Francis King Mother's Footsteps Harriet Waugh (Weidenfeld £4.95) Except for comedians in television studios or on the end of piers, mothers-in-law are usually no joke. If they......

Desert Islander

Evelyn Waugh In a Valley of This Restless Mind Malcolm Muggeridge (Collins £4.95) This review of Malcolm Muggeridge's novel was first published forty years ago in the Spectator.......