2 FEBRUARY 1974, page 15

The Pleasures Of Peace

Peter Ackroyd The Darkness of the Body David Plante (Jonathan Cape E2.25) The Angry Brigade Alan Burns (Alison and Busby E2.10, Quartet 50p) Introduction Five (Faber and Faber......

We Happy Few

Jan Morris Soft City Jonathan Raban (Hamish Hamilton £3.00) "Who has not fantasised," asks Mr Jonathan Raban somewhere in this book, "a conversation spontaneously struck between......