24 JANUARY 1976, page 25

Fiction

TV times Peter Ackroyd Ragtime D. L. Doctorow (Macmillan £3.50) All our friends have been reading it, haven't they? Here it is at last, the biggest piece of i L iclu strial......

Bookend

We still await the outcome of the anti-trust suit brought fifteen months ago by the US Justice Department against the twenty-one unsuspecting New York publishers accused of......