9 AUGUST 1975, page 21

Big Tease

Olivia Manning Sanditon Jane Austen and Another Lady (Peter Davies £3.50) How provoking for Miss Austen to have her name writ large on this rather dull novel while the chief......

Talking Of Books

Snap! goes the easel Benny Green I have often tried to picture the scene at the breakfast table of a highly successful portrait painter of the mid-Victorian era on the day the......