10 MARCH 1967, page 16

New Novels

Evasive Deborah PATRICK ANDERSON The Trouble with lake by Michael Burn (Rod- ley Head 25s) Quarry by Jane White (Michael Joseph 25s) The Presence of Music by Maurice Shadbolt......

The Romans

DESMOND FISHER The R.Cs. by George Scott (Hutchinson 35s) It is only a little over one hundred years since the last major discriminatory measures against Roman Catholics were......

Bizarre And Irrational Pattern

JOHN ROWAN WILSON Last year Pamela Hansford Johnson was asked by the Sunday Telegraph to spend a day or so at the Moors murder trial and write of her impressions. The trial......