11 JANUARY 1975, page 16

Top Secret?

Miles Copeland CIA Diary: Inside the Company Philip Agee (Penguin 95p) Sometimes it is important to an enemy espionage service to conceal from us the fact that it has purloined......

Ancient Streets

Kenneth Griffith Kensington Geoffrey Evans (Hamish Hamilton £6.00) It comes as a surprise to most people who do not actually reside in the Portobello Road — and indeed to some......

The Twilight World

Peter Ackroyd The Leavetaking John McGahern (Faber and Faber £2.50) The Best of Antrobus Lawrence Durrell (Faber and Faber £2.50) The Lea vetaking is written in a Gaelic......