17 MARCH 1984, page 31

The Maid's Story

Douglas Johnson Literature and the Left in France J. E. Flower (Macmillan £20) I t is well known that there is a close f 'between social history and the historYP, the novel.......

Among This Week's Contributors A. N. Wilson's Life Of...

Belloc will be published by }Tarnish Hamilton in April. Dorothy Bonn is on the staff of The Lancet. Brian Inglis's latest book, Science and Parascience, is published next week......