26 MARCH 1977, page 23

No Lady

Pat Rogers Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Edited by Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy (Clarendon Press £14.50) Lady Mary, says the blurb,......

True To Form

Geoffrey Wheatcroft The Good Food Guide 1977 edited by Christopher Driver (Consumers' Associ ation/Hodder & Stoughton £3.95) Racehorses of 1976 (Timetorm £15) Reference books......

Passion Fruit

Peter Ackroyd The Passion of New Eve Angela Carter (Gollancz £3.95) Flight Without End Joseph Roth (Peter Owen £4.25) Now that the conventional realistic novel has been embalmed......