'What does it feel like to be the most famous man in London?'  Bernard Levin asks Raphael in this third volume of his muscular diaries, covering 1974-76 and the height of the author's celebrity from The Glittering Prizes, his television drama series.  Passing judgement on endless arts and media faces such as the young Martin Amis (wearing his pop-novelist celebrity quietly, like 'Gary Glitter in mufti'), Raphael keeps one eye on life's greasy pole and the other on the eternal verities, writing aphorisms and producing critiques on the likes of Proust.  His sense of himself as an almost continental-style intellectual gives him something of an outsider's eye on England: 'When the English pay tribute to the arts or to scholarship, they do it with the eloquence of an Arab toasting Zionism'