22 FEBRUARY 1975, page 23

Fiction

Light relief Peter Ackroyd The Glory of the Hummingbird Peter De Vries (Gollancz £2,75) Invisible Cities Italo Calvino . (Secker and Warburg £2.50) Enormous Changes At The Last......

Talking Of Books

In deadly earnest Benny Green The bibliography continues to prosper; steadily the related volumes creep along the library shelves, advancing remoselessly past the point Where......

Bc,kbuyees Bookend

Later this year Gollancz are to publish a book called The Cats, an American thriller reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier's The Birds, which Gollancz also published. The Cats......