23 DECEMBER 1972, page 19

Quips From The Computer Age

Douglas Dunn Nobody's Business Penelope Gilliatt (Secker and Warburg £1.95) New Queens for Old Gabriel Fielding (Hutchinson £2.00) The Story of a Non-Marrying Man Doris Lessing......

Quick And The Dead

John Welcome An Unsuitable Job For A Woman P. D. James (Faber £1.90). The Caterpillar Cop James McClure (Gollancz £1.80). Smokescreen Dick Francis (Michael Joseph £1.95).......

Late Gift Books

Mysterious Britain Janet and Colin Bord (Garnstone Press £5.90) Some marvellous photographs together with a somewhat eccentric text describe, rather than solve, the mysteries of......