28 DECEMBER 1974, page 19

Portrait Of A Family

Sacheverell Sitwell The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici Christopher Hibbert (Allen Lane £4.95) 'Nearly everyone', meaning a good deal less than one per cent of the......

Portrait Of Love

Olivia Manning Wood brook David Thomson (Barrie and Jen kins £3.75) David Thomson writes like an angel, telling his story of lost love. His green misty countryside is so vividly......