5 APRIL 1975, page 20

Grotesquerie

Peter Ackroyd The Hawkline Monster Richard Brautigan (Jonathan Cape £2.50) Turtle Diary Russell Hoban (Jonathan Cape £2.95) "This novel is for the Montana gang" and so......

Talking Of Books

Books and lyrics Benny Green In 1870 the dramatist William Schwenck Gilbert wrote a farce called The Palace of Truth, a melange so perverse that years later it tempted William......