7 AUGUST 1976, page 16

Hiccups

Harriet Waugh A Web of Lace Pascal Laine (Abelard Schuman £2.28) Scenes From Bourgeois Life Mervyn Jones (Quartet £3.95) Canary Pie Stuart Cloete (Collins £3.75) A Web ollace by......

Paradise Lost

Peter Ackroyd My Father Bertrand Russell Katharine Tait (Gollancz £5.95) The disparity in famous men between the public face and the private life is shocking only to voyeurs; it......