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The Devils Advocate, By M

West. The novel that put this Austr author in an unassailable position at top of the literary tree. The story o academic ecclesiastic, and English to I; who emerges from his dusty archive Vatican City, only when he is a dying i His last task is to decide whether a hero, who was shot during the N Italian campaign, was or was nc potential saint, and thus in the last months of his life he comes to grips the earthy problems of human bei An extraordinary plot that needed ge to put it over. (Pan Giant.) Also Morris West, his factual account of post-war waifs of Naples, CHILDREN THE SUN. (Great Pan.)

Fuel For The Flame, By Ev

Waugh. A fitting successor to writer's "Island in the Sun"—this about an imaginary oil island in the Si China Sea. Waugh is at his best v\ mixing a literary cocktail from Br colonialism and modern political pressi (Pan Major.) THE MAN NEXT TO ME, by Anti- Barker. A factual account by a yo doctor who chose to work on a na reservation in Zululand, a place w the great national issues of Africa are decided —that is left to the more soph cated people in the towns and big ci A medical and human interest story though published in the Fontana relig series.

The Hosts Of Rebecca, By Alexar

Cordell. The reappearance of the Me mers, the 19th century Welsh family ’ dominated his earlier novel "Rape of Fair Country". In this story they II moved their location to south-west Wi but their capacity for trouble remains same. (Pan Giant.) THE CONQUEROR, by Georgette He One of this writer's more serious histoi novels, based on the life, disappointmi and triumphs of William the Bastard Normandy, more favourably known on other side of the Channel as William Conqueror. First published in 1931 it more recently been made into a f (Pan Giant.) THE GRAND SOPHY, a nev Regency comedy by the same am appears simultaneously. (Pan Giant.) THE DEVIL INSIDE, by Stephen Coui A novel based on the life of Fyo Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, one of the nr fantastic characters in which Rl. specialised in the 19th century. C spiritor, rake, gambler and writer i escaped the scaffold, survived Siberia always fell victim to his own tortu character. (Pan Major.) (0<

: CONSUL AT SUNSET, by Gerald y. This writer is credited with being erday Kipling, and this novel con the problems of governing natives British North African colony. Pub- I only in 1951, the problems Hand characters faced are now almost as mic as those of Kipling's heroes, ma.) REASONABLE DOUBT, by Juilian ns, who usually writes detective i but here turns to analysing some nurder cases. (Pan Giant.)

This Month in Crime

LOMON'S VINEYARD, by Jonathan gr. American private eye stuff, t Pan.) N'T OPEN THE DOOR, by Anthony rt. British-type suspense . (Fontana.)

= Case Of The Runaway Corpse,

irl Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason, of g. (Great Pan.) E LETHAL SEX—IO short thrillers by F America's top Whodunnit writers, ma.) E ABANDONED DOLL, by Laurence ell. Slick dialogue goes with it. ma.) E LADY VANISHES, by Ethel Lina !. The thriller from which Hitchcock his most famous film. (Fontana.) E MIND OF MR. J. G. REEDER, by ■ Wallace. Vintage piece. (Great E DARK ROAD, by James Cross.