25 OCTOBER 1975, page 23

Fiction

Tirades Peter Ackroyd The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Boll (Secker and Warburg £2.90) Dead Babies Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape £3.25). The sub-title of Heinrich Boll's......

Talking Of Books

Snow bound Benny Green Of all the millions of words that Anthony Trollope wrote, here are fourteen of my favourites: "It is the firstnecessity of the author's position that he......

Bookend

It is astonishing, when you think of it, that no one thought of it before. Now someone has. The Association of Illustrators is to open next month a gallery devoted exclusively......