Best of The Paperlachs

Practical:

Childbirth Without Fear

by Grantly Dick-Read. The book that has already made millions of friends amongst women the world over. This is the first British paper back edition—it has been revised and extended and has a new chapter on how every woman can be her own midwife in an emergency—What Every Woman Ought to Know, even if it scares her half to death. (Pan Piper; 7/6.) HOW TO STUDY by Harry Maddox, Everything is made easy these days by psychology—even this subject. (Pan Piper; 5/6.)

Love And Marriage By Dr.

Eustace Chesser, who sets out to show that marriage isn’t all sex—although the reader can judge from this book that sex seems to have something to do with it. (Pan Piper; 5/6.)

Mrs. Beeton’S All About

COOKERY. About the only original Beeton about this edition is the name and, in fact, the most the publishers claim for it is that it is “drawn from” the famous Victorian who was born in 1836, married at 20, died at 29 of a complication following child birth and spent four years preparing her cookery classis. This first paper back edition has 1,500 recipes and a great deal of other 1963 informa tion. (Pan Piper; 11/-.)

The Pan Book Of Dogs By

Catherine Fisher; and THE PAN

Book Of Home Pets By

Katharine Tottenham, are precisely what the titles say they are. Pets for the purpose of this exercise cover all the well-known varieties plus some exotic ones like monkeys, lizards and even alligators. (Pan Piper; both 5/6.)

Psychology:

THE OUTSIDER by Colin Wilson;

And The Battle For The

MIND by William Sargant; both deal with modern man in some of his aspects. Outsider is an “inquiry into the sickness of mankind in the mid-20th century”, and examines some deviations from the norm.

Sargant shows, on the other hand, that beliefs, good or bad, can be forcibly implanted in the human brain—i.e., indoctrination. (Pan Piper; 7/6 and 5/6.) For Students: The Pergamon Press, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, has recently launched the Commonwealth and International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Liberal Studies. The aim is to provide students with a series of low-priced, soft-covered textbooks, and 25 titles covering all departments of the Humanities and the Disciplines have been published. The three examples we have received are EQUATIONS

And Graphs, A Handbook Of

Algebraic Techniques By K.

Austwick, MSc., at 17/6 Stg.; Volume

1 Of General Engineering

SCIENCE by G. W. Marr and R.

C. Layton, at 12/6 Stg.; and a

Symposium On Teaching

RUSSIAN edited by C. V. James, at 21/- net. The books are bound in a plastic, linen-like material but are also available in hard covers (at extra cost). A full list of what is available can be obtained from the publishers.

Sport:

SKI WITH ME by Ruedi Wyrsch, is not a paperback but an illustrated booklet. The author is a Swiss champion who is one of the in creasing number of European ski instructors who come to Australasia for the southern winter. He is in structor for the North Canterbury Ski Club, NZ, and writes expressly for people ski-ing under NZ and Australian conditions. (Published by Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd,, Christchurch, NZ; price not stated.) Novels: Novels this month include Nevil Shute’s RUINED CITY, one of this author’s early stories; ANNIE’S CAPTAIN by Kathryn Hulme, who hit the best-selling jackpot with THE

Nun’S Story; The View From

The Fortieth Floor By

Theodore H. White, who produces, one of those monumental excursions behind the scenes of American Big Business—this time with a national magazine as the background motif;

And Closer To The Sun By

George Johnston, part of the husband and wife writing team of Johnston and Clift who, like the central characters of this story, are an Aus tralian couple living on an Aegean Island. (Three Pan and a Fontana; priced at 5/6, 7/6, 7/6 and 5/6 respectively.) Thrillers: Amongst the month’s crop: THUNDERBALL by James Bond (for which the publishers have gone to the trouble of punching two realistic bullet-holes in the paper cover); FEAR IS THE KEY by Alistair Maclean, who moves into Florida for the background to guns, gangsters and sudden death; and a QUESTION OF PROOF by Nicholas Blake, in which he concerns himself with grisly goings-on in a hay paddock. (Pan Fontana and Fontana; 5/6, 4//. and 4/- respectively. (Our Pan and Fontana from Wm..

Collins (Overseas) Ltd.).