21 APRIL 1979, page 27

Crime Story

Alistair Horne Holy Russia Fitzroy Maclean (Weidenfeld E7.95) When Gibbon wrote that History was 'little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of......

Twee Talk

Paul Ableman Only Children Alison Lurie (Heinemann £4.95) This is a story told in two kinds of baby-talk and one kind of grown-up talk. Mary-Ann's kind of baby-talk goes like......