20 DECEMBER 1968, page 15

Thit And Thefuther

RODNEY ACKLAND Any reader who has once been lost to the world in the stone fields and labyrinths of Gormenghast soon perceives, on finding his way back, that Gormenghast lies......

Troubled Times

NICHOLAS MANSERGH The Spy in the Castle David Neligan (Mao- Gibbon and Kee 30s) Ireland's Civil War Calton Younger (Muller 50s) These two books on Ireland's time of troubles......

Anatomy Of The Horse Books

TIBOR SZAMUELY Nearly thirty-five years ago, in one of the best books ever written about the USSR, Winter in Moscow, Malcolm Muggeridge painted a bril- liant portrait of an 'old......