12 JULY 1975, page 20

Nationalysis

Edward Taylor MP Internal Colonialism (The Celtic Fringe In British National Development, 1536-1966) Michael Hechter (Routledge and Kegan Paul £6.25) Why has . there been such......

Fiction

Modernist? Peter Ackroyd, Thru Christine Brooke-Rose (Hamish Hamilton 0.50) Stamping Ground Maurice Leitch (Secker and Warburg £3.10) Thru is too little, and it is also too......

Talking Of Books

A very good year Benny Green The type is familiar enough to have become an archetype; the between-the-wars expatriate English public schoolboy who sits on the terrace......