8 MARCH 1975, page 16

Valley Of The Dolls

Peter Ackroyd Female Friends Fay Weldon (Heinemann £2.75) Firuz of isfahan Christopher Tower (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.00) There is someone in Female Friends who suffers a......

Talking Of Books

Sailing by Benny Green Along the lane from my house to the railway station there is a canal spanned by a tiny hump-backed bridge. Where the canal comes from or where it goes to......

Bookbuyer S

Bookend "This is bookbuying 'seventies style" says the latest advertisement from World Books, the reprint club semi-owned by W. H. Smith. Its new recruitment drive includes an......