What’s New in Paper Backs

T'HE most interesting group of paper backs this month is three in Macmillan’s St. Martin’s Library series.

The library produces in paper back form good quality works by such writers as Thomas Hardy and Shaun O’Casey, Lewis Carroll and Sir Osbert Sitwell. Now we have three of Rudyard Kipling’s— Kim, Puck of Book’s Hill and The Jungle Book.

They are nicely produced on slightly better paper than the usual paper

k. and their prices, 7/6, 6/- and respectively make them well th having. he remainder of the month’s re es come from William Collins erseas) Limited, in the Pan Books Fontana Series, selling for 4/- :pt where otherwise stated. There entertainment enough here for body.

Ast Side, West Side, By

cia Davenport, is the famous y of a week in the life of beautiful, ited Jessie Bourne. Her life has i ruined by a wrecked marriage, enter General Mark Dwyer, ntana Monarch, 7/6).

He Conquest Touch, By

teley Gray. A dishevelled girl ; in front of Norman Conquest’s and finds that he is the only man to grapple with the cunning of pursuer. Even Superintendent iams is forced to overlook the [Rcial methods Conquest uses in thriller to bring the culprit into light. (Fontana).

Arget For Conquest, By

teley Gray. Another Conquest ctive story. A man is murdered n Conquest fails to intervene in case. That policeman Williams bout to arrest Conquest for the der but Conquest, of course, )ws one of his inspired hunches adventure begins. (Fontana).

3Uth By Java Head, By

tair Mac Lean. Action comes fast furious when a group of soldiers, es and civilians runs to escape Jap advance on shattered apore. The succession of disasters light by the Japs, and the hatred :h grew between the survivors e this gripping tale in the typical Lean manner. (Fontana). by Oakley Hall, orical events and invented ones woven together in this novel based the town of Warlock when the ens agreed to hire a gunman be their Marshal but he can :r succeed in upholding the law. eal wild western. (Pan Giant,

He Passionate City, By Lan

irt Black. War, espionage and ance when David Stuart, a school her regarded as a spy becomes First Love of an heiress to one Rome’s most powerful military ilies. In this thriller they solve r problems against a backdrop of tical intrigue. (Great Pan).

Hunter’S Tracks, By J.

Hunter. Is full of breath-tak encounters with man-eating animals Africa during a hunt for iv« poachers. It is a true story of r adventure, with a spectacular Afrit background. Illustrated (Great Pa

The Years Of Enduranc

1793-1802, by British historian Arthur Bryant is English history those years when she stood agai France. Graphic, witty, wonder reading. (Fontana Monarch, 7/6) GEORGIA BOY, by Ersk Caldwell, is a story of small to life in the Deep South, told in typical Erskine Caldwell style. Wh means sex. (Great Pan).

Return To Coolami,

Australian writer Eleanor Dark. Ft start their two-day trip from Sydi to Coolami where they hope to f new happiness. But their journey one of near disaster. (Fontana, 5/

Anna And Her Daughtei

by D. E. Stevenson. All went v for Anna Harcourt and her daught until the death of her husband 1 them to face poverty. The change fortune reveals the true qualities each of the girls. An entertain: light novel especially for the ladi (Fontana).

Among The Cedars,

Dorothy Wright. Tells of the lo: liness of a little girl who spends m of her time in a whirl of hotel roo and planes as she is shuttled bj and forth between a beautil immoral mother and a preoccup father. (Great Pan).

The Pan Quiz Book. Compi

by Hubert Phillips, it contains ‘sets’ of twenty questions, coveri literature, astronomy and history, e Just the thing for a rainy day— for swotting up before a TV pai programme. (Great Pan).

Queen’S Bureau Of I

VESTIGATION, by Ellery Que< Eighteen typical Ellery Que mysteries go into this book. It’s good buy for mystery lovers. (Gn Pan).

Come Back Miranda,

Anne Duffield. A sea voyage and princess join together to sh( Miranda that the man she rejecl two years before was not the ph boy and philanderer he pretended be. A story of regained lo 1 (Great Pan).

Means To An End, By To

Rowan Wilson. The son of

an millionaire who renounces isiness world finds himself up in it again when he is by his conscience and the he loves. A fast moving, )vel of big business. (Fontana, LOW THE SAINT, by Leslie is. Another mystery starring Templar. When Simon r meets up with the beautiful the plot unfolds, and it can m for granted that no Saint will be disappointed. (Great

[Ato Cain And Other

ES, by Nigel Kneale. Horror, • and irony go together in )k of short stories. (Fontana).