22 NOVEMBER 1975, page 21

Fiction

Vandals Peter Ackroyd Joseph and the Goths Catherine Heath (Jonathan Cape £2.95) To Die in Italbar Roger Zalazny (Faber and Faber £2.75) There is not much to be said nowadays......

Talking Of Books

All in the game Benny Green There persists a certain fanciful image of the intrepid Englishman, an image hopelessly passé and perhaps even without much basis in fact. But it......

Bookend

The Booker Prize for Fiction — which my colleague Peter Ackroyd helped to judge — has gone to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala for her novel Heat and Dust. Congratulations to Miss Jhabvala,......