20 OCTOBER 1973, page 54

Sugar And Spice

Llew Gardner The Devil's Decade, Claud Cockburn (Sidgwick & Jackson £3.50) Emlyn, Emlyn Williams (Bodley Head £3) Here are two books about life in the 'thirties each, one......

Bill Platypus's

Paperbacks There was a Noel Coward song, in those balmy days before the war, in which the rhymes of a song were a series of variations on 'Bellini.' Now at last we can discover......

Shorter Notices

Ziegfeld Charles Higham (W. H. Allen £2.75) Anyone curious about the origins of that familiar mythical beast, the Monstrous lmpressario, need look no further; Florenz Ziegfeld......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend As the book trade suffers its annual dose of Book Fair purgatory in Frankfurt, the talk is of mice, men and paperbacks. The softcover shuffle certainly continues apace,......