6 AUGUST 1977, page 31

The Ghost

Peter Ackroyd Midlife Feasts Rudolf Nassauer (Jonathan Cape £4.50) There was a time when the novel was a'kind of shared joke between writer and reader; it was 'unreal', but......

Ohms

Benny Green Water on the Brain Compton Mackenzie (Penguin Books 85p) The republication of Water on the Brain could not have come at a more convenient moment. Only last month the......