[?]any Tastes

[?]ovels For [?]any Tastes

VE novels, in just as many dimensions, make up the fiction ke this month. Their hack mds are America, Europe, Eng and America again.

Wo Hours To Darkness,

\ntony Trew, is for people who a good, fast-moving story with ible situations. This is after the of early Alistair Maclean, al gh this new writer has a better mand of characterisation, is 1964 and Britain’s first nuc submarine, equipped with Polaris iles, is on exercises in Scandina waters. Her captain, for various ms, is close to what, in layman’s rage, is called a nervous break i. One of his obsessions is ness among the nation in general his crew in particular; another at it would be better to be the to start a nuclear war rather the last. i keep his crew “on their toes” ecretly arranges a fake crisis, w of his crew find out but play aptain’s game, watching horrified is hysteria mounts. The ques is, when it comes to the critical ent at the end of the exercise he draw back or will he let absession drive him over the to push the fatal plunger? e men’s tension mounts and so the reader’s—behind it is the question: Can one crazy man a nuclear war by pressing a n? dished by Collins. 22/-.)

( Father Sits In The

K, by Jerome Weidman. This collection of short stories by Lithor of I Can Get It For You esale, and various other best > which he has been churning ince he was 24. Probably as sting as the stories themselves ch are a mixed bag of styles ontrivings—is the “Author’s In :tion” which gives Weidman’s version of how he became an r. lished by Heinemann. 22/6.) E BELL JAR, by Victoria Strictly for those interested : psychiatrist’s couch. Written e first person by a young can female who, by her own nt, had it made, but deviated i journey into a mental home.

', to the point where the read

er winds up by feeling compara tively unhinged himself. (Published by Heinemann. 22/6.)

Many Slippery Errors, By

Alfred Grossman. An art confection in which the author expresses his own immortal soul as well as that of his hero. A satire on the chronic disintegration of personality and the insecurity and confusion of purpose of today’s world—although the easi est way to find this out is to read about it on the dust jacket. published by Heinemann. 26/-.)

A Time To Retreat, By Brian

Cooper. A war story with a differ

ence in that the best part of it is taken up with a military court of inquiry that was never held. For 20 years the General, now living in Cornwall, has wanted a court of inquiry into a disastrous incident of the war in SE Asia for which he had, by inference, been blamed. He knew exactly how the inquiry should go but why it was never held pro vides a final twist to this entertain ing novel of adventure and suspense. (Published by Heinemann. 22/6.)

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