6 OCTOBER 1961, page 28

Everyman's Island

A House for Mr. Biswas. By V. S. Naipaul. (Deutsch, 21s.) April Morning. By Howard Fast. (Methuen, 15s.) TRINIDAD is about the size of Lancashire, or so I learnt from a recent......

Pig And Pepper

Curtains. By Kenneth Tynan. (Longmans, 42s.) KENNETH PEACOCK TYNAN tends to provoke ex- treme reactions—and, incidentally, I'm not being personal; it was only yesterday that I......