31 AUGUST 1974, page 23

Fiction

Time capsules Peter Ackroyd Happy Endings David Cook (Secker and Warburg with Alison Press £2.25) The Sightseer Geoffrey Wolff (Hamish Hamilton £2.75) It is not generally known......

Talking Of Books

Those were the days Benny Green I am a 'thirties man myself, whose awareness of the good things of life was awakened by 'Lullaby of Broadway', Alex James's long shorts; Harold......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend It seems only yesterday that Bookend was berating publishers for not giving better support to the £5,000 Booker Prize for Fiction, and J. G. Farrell for not being more......