6 SEPTEMBER 1975, page 20

Destiny Uncertain

Richard Luckett Robespierre George Rude (Collins £4.95) Robespierre: or the Tyranny of the Majority Jean Matrat (Angus and Robertson £6.30) Cesare Pavese defined destiny as......

Brimming Over

Jan Morris The Golden Riviera Roderick Cameron (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.95) Many of us of a certain age had our first glimpse of the South, our first sip at the beaker, in......

Fiction

Artfulness Peter Ackroyd The Needle Francis King (Hutchinson £3.45) The Gamekeeper Barry Hines (Michael Joseph £3.50) There has always been a dark side to Mr King's novels,......