27 APRIL 1974, page 24

Big Bangs

Peter Ackroyd Tear His Head Off His Shoulders Nell Dunn (Jonathan Cape £1.95) Concrete Island J. G. Ballard (Jonathan Cape £1.95) 'Character', the last refuge of the humanist's......

Talking Of Books

Scarlet O'Hara Benny Green Ever since I first read Appointment in Samarra in my teens, I have had the feeling that I would have detested John O'Hara. It is perhaps an unwise......

Bookbuyer's Bookend

If Bookbuyer comes back to the matter of bestseller lists again, it is only because it is an important one and there is some pretty funnY business afoot. To recap briefly —......