[?]at’s New in Paper Backs

LAKE'S REACH, by Catherine Gaskin, i first published in 1958 and reviewed 'PIM". It is a period piece, acted out he Romney Marsh country of England ;re, just after the French Revolution, llishmen were beginning to take an irest in affairs and wine from dss the Channel. The writer is an itralian. (Fontana; 5/6.) OVER MAN, by Alston Anderson: A ry about Negro life by a Negro—or as more polite to say these days, by a oured man. Anderson is no ordinary n, coloured or uncoloured. He writes >ut his people without a chip on his

shoulder and doesn't sweat over real or fancied racial prejudices. He was born in Panama of Jamaica parents, went to school partly in Jamaica and later in North Carolina. He served in the US forces and finished his education at Columbia University and then the Sor bonne. He went to live for a while in Majorca—where black men, like black cats, are held to be lucky—and there met Robert Graves who writes a foreword for this collection of short stories. Ander son has a sense of humour and, as it says on the cover, his short stories con tain the whole essence of American Negro

life—tender, passionate, savage and ri bald. (Great Pan; 4/-.) DOUBLE AGENT, by Jean Overton Fuller, is written as a consequence of re searches the writer made for her former book, Madelaine. It is a story of how she tracked down a man who, while en joying the confidence of the British dur ing the last war, was also considered by the Germans as one of their most im portant sources of information. There is still a question-mark as to whether he was or was not a double agent. (Great Pan; 4/-.) (Over)

Picnic At Porokorro, By Hot

Charteris. A novel based on the mod© concept of West Africa, where even most innocent of incidents will be judgt against the background of inter-racb tensions and world politics. (Fontafi 4/-.)

Malice In Wonderland, By Nichok

Blake. Mob hysteria, terror and murcb take the place of the more normal horro of that most extraordinary of all Briti' institutions—the holiday camp. (FontaA 4/-.)

Ordeal By Innocence, By Agatl

Christie. A comparatively modern nui ber by this mistress of crime—first pu lished in 1958. When a stranger calkl at the Argyle house he shattered the con placency of half a dozen people. seemed that he could prove that Jact Argyle, who had got life for the murd of his mother, may have been innoces after all. (Fontana; 4/-.)

Sacrilege In Malaya, By Pien

Boulle. There are more ways than ok of getting a rubber tree to give up latex—anyway, that is what Bedoux tri to prove to his plantation labourers. II has been sent out to Malaya by tH directors of a big rubber company to i troduce new methods and boost produ tion. It looked easy from 8,000 mill away but almost impossible on the spo (Fontana; 5/-.) THE VIRGINIAN, by Owen Wister. TH is probably the most famous of i Western novels—it has been read E millions, reprinted many times since was first published in 1902 and filme on four different occasions. It is a class of cow-boy romances and probably close to the Wild West in truth than the lun lore that has grown up about this pha* of American history in recent years.

The Virginian was a Southerner wk rode the plains and mountains of whr is now the State of Wyoming in til service of a rancher. In the end til Virginian—and he is never known by an other name —becomes a rich man himsei< but that is beyond this story. Here K is a young man and apart from his e? ploits as a cow-puncher it also tells h 1 charming love story. (Published by Ma= millan and Co., Ltd., in their St. Marti Library. 9/3.)