The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1960Vol. XXX, No. 12

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pp. 99-101 · Read in the full issue

That’s New in Paper Jackets

Ally Round The Flag. Boys, By

k Shulman. This is the Great American y of Life, brought up to date. The Life es place at a US Missile Base, some >re in New England. A story of men h “untamed hearts” and women with ging juices”. All the ingredients are re for the Americans to have a good gh at themselves and cut their sacro ct missile down to size. (GREAT PAN).

Nother Little Drink, By Peter

»yney. The supply of Cheyneys is well h inexhaustible. Month by month they rie onto the bookstalls, most of them re nts of ancient numbers. The current del, published first in 1940, has been re nted in paper backs in each of the last ee years. (GREAT PAN).

Iutobiography Of A Saint Is The

obiography of St. Therese of Carmelite nun who died in 1897 aged 24, nslated by Ronald Knox. It is a better nslation than an earlier version. [)NTANA, Black).

Ietween The Stirrup And The

iOUND, by Diana Raymond. A character dy of a brilliant man whose undoing s a lesser brand of woman. In a ment of mad jealousy, he murders her. d as the clerk said, there were those o hadn’t a good word to say for him erwards. Did this one mad act negate ; man’s whole, previous character. This >ms to be the point at issue in this ex lent, tense and well-sustained novel.

An Giant).

Children Of The Archbishop, By

irman Collins. This is one of the lesser own of this author’s far from prolific vels but although it concerns the London the 1920’s and 1930’5, it follows the same cipe of “London Belongs to Me” (London iring War II), and the more recent tond Street Story”. The central figures e two children, inmates of Archbishop idkin Orphan Hospital, in Putney; but is. as well, the separate stories of a zen other people whose lives touch them some respect. As in all Collins novels, e hero isn’t a person at all—but London.

Ontana Monarch).

THE MASK, by Stuart Cloete. This mewhat gruesome story of eariy Boer story in South Africa was first published r Collins in 1958, and was reviewed in icse columns then. (FONTANA).

SPY CONVERTED, by Pierre Boulle. nee the movie success of “Bridge on the iver Kwai” —before which few people had eard of Pierre Boulle—a number of this iithor’s works have been resurrected. The rst “library” edition of this current one as translated from the French and pub shed in England, in 1955, as William onrad”. The French writer was born in vignon, but became a rubber planter in [alaya. Perhaps that is why he adopts cynical attitude to his British characters ith whom the current story is concerned. spy story with a different twist.

Fontana).

Your Baby—And You, By Dr. Wini

red de Kok. This is a third-time-over re dinting, too. It was first published m 957, especially for Pan Books, Ltd., and pas reviewed in “PIM” at that time. Dr. le Kok has. in recent years, become a adio and TV personality in the UK where ier “Tell Me, Doctor”, programmes are a IBC feature. Her book is a splendid guide o what goes on, and what to do about it, rom the time of conception until the ■hild is about two years old. (GREAI •AN).

THE TALL MAN, by A. M. Harris. This story is described as “the great Australian arize-winning novel of the Korean war

b„t It was on, that gat away Iran, us SS n aSaut re . C he published “ 1958, by Cassell). It Is, hawever, quite a competent suspense novel based on the war in Korea. (GREAT

Pan).

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ing on her was a brand new apprentice, our author, Bestic. This is the story of that voyage, seen through his eyes.

(Great Pan).

EMERGENCY EXIT, by Harry Car-

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c[«tb<- S B„l sh, was ta^dle^ be,are ~abn Piper was called in by the Insurance company. (FONTANA), H.M.S. ULYSSES, by Alistair Mac Lean.

This was the noV el that turned a Glasgow schoolteacher into a best-selling a ut^ or ? n

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(Fontana).

MORALS AND MAN, by Father Gerald Vann. This is a revision of the author’s famous religious work, “Morals Makyth Man", first published 1n.1931'

IVl iniTueitced^y^ready*made*Weas^and*ldeals.

re once they were a matter of con ion, now they are put out by news >rs, radio and TV. He warns Christians religion is no substitute for thought.

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_OTILDE, by Cecil Saint Laurent. Even [o ut “France-Soir’s” recommendation . The enchanting Clotilde gives ms in history and love at the same s”, most people know what to expect ' French novel. And in this one they not disappointed. Seventeen-year-old ilde becomes involved in the serious ness of men at war—the intrigues of Viche regime, and the heroism of the [stance. But whichever side it was to Clotilde was far more interested in the i, than their wars. (PAN MAJOR).

ALL MAN RIDING, by Norman Fox. A item. Need we say more? (FONTANA).

HE DOOMSTERS, by John Ross Mac aid. This is in the tough school of erican crime fiction —all told by Lew her, one of the increasing band of mg-arm crime breakers who tell their ies in the first person. (GREAT PAN).

HE DEVIL TO PAY, by Ellery Queen — )38 original, and now reprinted in paper k. If there is anything new to say ut Mr. Queen, we can’t think of it it now. (GREAT PAN).

AMES DON’T CARE, by Peter Cheyney. s is of 1937 vintage. See paragraph ve this—and second item this section.

3Eat Pan).

he RED PLANET, by Charles Chilton, aren’t quite sure whether this one is children or adults—although in some ds there is not much difference between two species. An opus based on a BBC ice thriller series. It is all about the it earth expedition to reach Mars. A advanced for us. (GREAT PAN).

IOUTHWAYS, by Erskine Caldwell. This thor has now sold 58 million of his as ted works and this particular one is m the well-tried formula: Sex (especi y when it’s fried Deep Southern style) wonderful! (GREAT PAN).