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Command The Morning, By Pearl S.

Buck, who has turned from fictionalised China to The Bomb —or more properly, the people who have made The Bomb and created the possibility of blowing man off the face of the earth. (Great Pan.)

Two Weeks In Another Town, By

Irwin Shaw. This is about the "sensuous world of the film-makers in modern Rome"—but it isn't about the Taylor- Burton romance. It, moreover, has a man

bites-dog plot: An American male is seduced by an Italian girl. (Pan Giant.)

Ellery Queen's Book Of Mystery

STORIES. The third printing in Pan of this collection by 25 writers —none of them normally in the whodunnit field. (Pan Giant.) THE DESERT GENERALS, by Correlli Bar nett. This is a general study of the British campaigns in the North African desert, 1940-43, but particularly of the five generals who have come to be associated with them O'Connor, Cunningham, Ritchie, Auchinleck and Montgomery.

During the research carried out for this book, the author interviewed almost every senior officer who saw service during those years in the desert—with the ex ception of Field-Marshall Montgomery of whom he is severely critical. He thinks that he was not the military Messiah of legend but the mere inheritor of inevit able success. However much that might be a matter of opinion, many people will agree with Barnett that had it not been for the disastrous Greek campaign, O'Connor might have finished the North African show in 1941. (Pan Giant.) THE SINGING SANDS, by Josephine Tey, is the most popular of this writer's thrillers, published only after her death.

In background it covers a lot of country all the way from the Hebrides to the Middle East. (Great Pan.) SUN ACROSS THE SKY, by Eleanor Dark, an Australian writer although it does not show particularly, as she is interested in people and situations rather than places. (Fontana.)

The Christian Experience Of The

HOLY SPIRIT, by H. Wheeler Robinson, an eminent theologian. The book was first published in 1928; however, there are probably as many people bewildered by the difficulties of this doctrine now as then and therefore it cannot be said to be dated. (Fontana.)

More Prayers For The Plain Man,

by William Barclay. A sort of package deal in ready-made prayers. Some of these are set out like a diet chart, cover ing 40 days; others are for specific per sons, such as: A Farmer's or a Gardener's Prayer; A Scholar's Prayer; A Prayer for Shop Assistants; etc. We should have imagined that most people capable of prayer are also capable of saying their own piece; prayer as a last-ditch refuge is almost a basic instinct in man. It seems an extraordinary commentary on the modern variety that he should have to get a pre-digested prayer out of a book —like buying one of those fancy greeting cards with which manufacturers have succeeded in covering every emotional and social occasion in the suburban dweller's calendar. (Fontana.)

FORBIDDEN, by Anne Maybury. More love, marriage and etc. (Fontana.)

The Travels Of Jaimie Mcpheeters,

is the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Robert Lewis Taylor about the Forty- Niners and the race to California in those mad, gold-rush days. This big novel has all the ingredients of a good book — humour, drama and real human beings— including Jaimie who has the charm of another American boy-hero—Huck Finn. (Pan Major.) HELLO ANNA! by Renee Shann. The terrible dilemma of Pan who had to make a choice between Love (with a childhood sweetheart), and a glamorous career on TV. (Fontana.) A POWER OF ROSES, by Ruth Park, on her usual theme of life in the slums of Sydney. Also by the same author, THE FROST AND THE FIRE, a "tough racy" story of the New Zealand 1860 gold rush days. (Both Great Pan.)

Seven Men At Daybreak, By Alan

Burgess. In 1942 Czechoslovakia was helpless under the Nazi jackboot; it was decided that in the Allied cause, its so called Reichsprotector, General Reinhard Heydrich, should go. Two men were chosen for the job—Kubis and Gabchik— and they were trained at a school for Czech saboteurs in Scotland and later parachuted into their own country. They carried out their task in Prague in May, 1942—but there was, of course, much more to it than that. (Pan Giant.)

Arthritis And Folk Medicine, By

D. C. Jarvis, MD. The doctor (American) is already responsible for a best seller — "Folk Medicine"; this volume is a follow up. Part of the cure of arthritis (according to Dr. Jarvis), is taking apple-cider vinegar and honey. Pickles are also good . . . (Great Pan.) FIRE AT SEA, by Thomas Gallagher. The story of the historic fire on the cruise ship "Morro Castle" which, in September, 1934, burst into flames off the New Jersey coast after a cruise to Cuba. There were 200 officers and crew and 300 passengers and over 130 of them died in the disaster; many more were burned or injured. There has always been an element of scandal and mystery about the whole tragedy— particularly about the part Rogers, the radio operator, played in it. (Great Pan.) FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, by lan Fleming —five episodes in the life of secret agent extraordinary, James Bond, with back grounds that range from Bermuda to the Seychelles and from Venice to Cuba. (Great Pan.)

Claudia And Claudia And David,

by Rose Franklin, who has found the

formula for pleasing millions of reao with the sweetly pretty love-life Claudia and her husband David. (Both Great Pan.)

One-Star General, By Al More

About a soldier who finally got General's star. Tough American, » structed on the plan that you can't anywhere unless you trample everyy, else to death. (Great Pan.) A GAME FOR THE LIVING, by Patrl Highsmith. Crime, sex, etc.. South of Border, Mexican style. (Great Pan.) THE LOTUS EATERS, by Gerald Grr Gay, gaudy goings-on at an Amen beach-resort with much seduction air odd as it may seem—some archaeoL on the side. Smart operators, rackett and pleasure seekers make up the i plus Dr. Tom Sorrento who only wti to unearth some Indian culture andt cidentally supplies the idealism—in minor key, of course. The kind of trayal of American life that probably vinces Mr. Khrushchev that he is righti he ever reads such things. (Pan Majou

Henderson The Rain King, By

Bellow. An American millionaire, nean play-boy type, fed up with friends, and offspring, goes off to Africa drifts off the beaten track—with es ordinary results for the Africans and: the misfit millionaire. (Pan Giant.)

Encore Clotilde, By Cecil J

Laurent. The very Free French heroin at work again as a sequel to her oriii ''Clotilde''. This time she takes part in Resistance movement and in doing livens up dull, wartime Frence.

Giant.)

California Street, Niven Buu

novel of San Francisco and the rises fall of Anchylus Saxe who got to < city several generations too late, would have fitted better into the ro.c world of the Forty-niners. Nonethw he acquired a newspaper, wealth position before he was destroyed b’c own children. (Pan Giant.) THE MELODY OF SEX, by Max 0 who, usually given to extravaganza foreign parts, this time turns to 1 His hero is a very prim American mir aire who discovers that he owns a tease joint in Montmartre. (Great Pa SHADOW OF GUILT, by Patrick 0 tin. Murder and guilty consciences agi what appears to be the usual Amei domestic background wandering (: bands and erring wives. (Great Pan..r (Our copies from Wm. Collins (0 seas) Ltd. All Fontanas 4/- ea Ronald Knox and Christian Expert; of the Holy Spirit which are 5/6: ♦ Pans, 4/-; Pan Giants, 5/6; Pan M 7/6.)