[?]est Of The Paperbacks
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an Books’ new paperback
•s Pan Piper is non m and caters for the grow narket for more serious read-
The first half-dozen volumes
>d cover as many fields:
Ie Basic Facts Of Human
EDITY by Amram Scheinfeld, American and recognised world )rity on the subject. His You Heredity became a best-seller the present paperback covers ame sort of ground. (7/6).
Lildbirth Without Fear
rrantly Dick-Read. This book is dy world-famous amongst ers who subscribe to his theories t natural childbirth. This is the British paperback edition, (7/6.)
Ie Pan Book Of Home
> by Katherine Tottenham, well n in the UK for her BBC tele i and radio programmes on al history subjects. As well as isual cat and dog pets, she de ss how to get on with more ; ones like alligators and silk is. (5/6.) IE OUTSIDER by Colin Wilson, investigates the problems of ;rn man who psychologically, ar illy, sexually and seven different ways is a pretty mixed-up in ual. (7/6.)
Ie Best English By G. H.
ins, a reprint of his third and last
volume on the English language. The first two, Good English and Better English have been best-sellers. In this book he dissects great literature, its meanings, sources and its tech niques. (5/6.)
The Explosion Of British
SOCIETY, 1914-1962 by Arthur Marwick. This is an original, es pecially written for the publishers by the author who, at 24, was the youngest History Lecturer at a British University. Here, he spotlights the social, political, economic and scienti fic factors that shaped British society in the last 50 turbulent years. (5/6.)
The Pan Book Of Wines
selected from the UK House and Garden. This covers just about every thing anyone need know about wine —including an encouraging chapter on Australian and South African wines that should be made required reading for high-nosed British wine drinkers, at whom the book is primarily aimed. (5/6.)
The Pan Book Of Beauty
by Nan Van den Hoek, is just what it says. The author is something of an expert in her own field and was for 20 years beauty editor on inter nationally known women’s magazines. (5/6.) General MARIO by Peter de Polnay. The story of a couple of waifs in imme diate post-war Florence. (Pan; 4/-.)
Where The Boys Are By
Glendon Swathout. Teen-age Ameri cans in Florida for the sun-tan, etc. (Pan; 4/-.)
The Fiercest Heart By
Stuart Cloete. South Africa, 1830; re viewed in PIM when first published 1960. (Fontana; 7/6.)
The Tight White Collar
by Grace Metalious, the author of Peyton Place. (Pan; 5/6.) TWO LEFT FEET by David Stuart Leslie. London teen-age jungle. (Pan; 5/6.) THE FOUNDLING by Georgette Heyer. Regency blue-bloods and a spot of blackmail. (Pan; 7/6.)
The Mistress Of Mellyn By
Victoria Holt. We reveiewed it in 1960 when first published. Soon to be made into a million-dollar movie by Paramount. Suspense, in the Rebecca fashion. (Fontana; 5/6.)
Lucinda Marries The Doc
TOR by Elizabeth Seifert. (Fontana; 4/-.)
THE DURIAN TREE by Michael Keon. Malaya, during the Emer gency. (Pan; 5/6.) A NET OF GOLD by Alice Ekert- Rotholz. A romance against a back ground that covers the last 25 years of the Dutch in the Netherlands Indies. (Pan; 7/6.) Thrillers
To Live In Danger By Bryan
Magee. Counter-espionage in Central Europe. (Pan; 5/6.)
The Man At The Carlton
by Edgar Wallace, in his “late period”, 1931. (Pan; 4/-.)
A Bullet For Cinderella
by John D. MacDonald who is rapidly becoming one of America’s top-flight thriller writers. (Pan; 4/-.)
Death In A White Tie And
FALSE SCENT both by Ngaio Marsh —one originally published in 1938 the other in 1960 to give fans a chance to compare her early and late techniques. (Fontana; 4/- ea.) I’M NO HERO by Hartley Howard. American-type, private-eye. (Fontana; 4/-.)
The Talisman Ring By Geor
gette Heyer, being the first and last occasion on which she combined Regency romance with murder and mystery. (Fan; 5/6.) (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Over seas) Ltd. Sydney.)
AUTHOR MARRIES; Australian author of "Innaminka" and "Labrador Memories", Sister Elizabeth Burchill, was married in Melbourne on May 27 to businessman Percival C. Shalless. Mrs. Shalless is well known in the Sepik district of New Guinea, where until recently she was a nurse with the Department of Health.
She is currently negotiating for the sale of a new book on her Sepik nursing experiences.
