25 MAY 1974, page 22

Butterfly Minded

Colin Wilson Strong Opinions Vladimir Nabokov (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £3.50) Literary reputations are sometimes made in a curiously accidental manner. One mild day towards the......

Fiction

Life is a drag Peter Ackroyd Royo County Robert Roper (Andre Deutsch £1.75) Regiment of Women Thomas Berger (EYr e Methuen £2.75) There was once a poem, in those days when......