20 OCTOBER 1984, page 29

Orcadian In Plus Fours

Jo Grimond Eric Linklater Michael Parnell (John Murray £16) Orkney and Shetland Eric Linklater (Hale £9.95) T et us get one thing straight. Eric Linklater was an Orcadian, but......

Young Scumbag

A. N. Wilson Money Martin Amis (Cape £8.95) T his book has received extravagant praise from Martin Amis's more fawn- ing or soft-brained admirers. Equally (as the narrator of......