19 NOVEMBER 1977, page 24

Outrageous Fraud

Adam Fergusson Devolution: The End of Britain? Tam Dalyell (Jonathan Cape £4.95; paperback £2.95) In all the sorry tale of how John the Baptist lost his head, the sorriest......

Reel Life

Peter Ackroyd A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick (Gollanci SZ3 . 50) The title gives nothing away; it is vaguely Biblical and vaguely Pauline, and suggests that life is not what it......