Best of The paperbacks

Ring Of Bright Water By

Gavin Maxwell. Scots, blown away or otherwise, and nature-lovers, will find fascination in this story. Maxwell, a Lowlander takes to the Hebrides, tar tan kilt, bagpipes, and two pet otters who share his bed in High land isolation. (Pan; 7/6.

The Sands Of Dunkirk By

Richard Collier. Probably more books have been written about the evacuation of the BEE from Dunkirk in 1940 than about any other aspect of World War 11. However, in this story the author has ignored military history and concentrated on the per sonal experiences of the individuals who were involved. Because they were not all heroes, the book raised a controversy in the UK when first published in 1961. (Fontana; 5/6.)

The Furnished Room By

Laura Del-Riva. A first novel that captured the notice of the film makers and now has been made into a film by Warner-Pathe (as “West II”). The story is set in the grey wastes of the London districts of Netting Hill Gate and Earls Court—some parts of the latter being known to Australian migrants in London as Kangaroo Alley. Joe Beckett (played in the

movie by Alfred Lynch) is one of the tenants of this bed-sitter-land, who “heat tins on gas rings, look at the wallpaper and smuggles girls in past the landlady”. (Pan; 5/6.)

A Sense Of Values By Sloan

Wilson, best-seller writer of American contemporary life. In this epic-sized novel he shows that in United States, success —this time of the creator of a newspaper strip—can be as dangerous as failure. (Pan; 7/6.)

The Secret Of The King

DOM by Mika Waltari ( The Egyp tian, etc.). All Biblical, cinerama, full Technicolor and big, big, big, (Panther; 7/6.)

Cure Your Nerves Your

SELF by Dr. Louis E. Bisch. If you shy away from people; think sex is revolting; or feel you are a failure, the author has the answer without the help of a psychiatrist. (Crest Book.)

The Guinea Pig Club By Ed

ward Bishop. The club was formed in 1941 and all members were Air Force patients of Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, London.

This story tells how these men, dis

figured in combat, were given new faces, new limbs and new hope by plastic surgeons led by the late Sir Archibald Mclndoe. A “doctor book, with a difference. (Corgi; 5/6.) DEAR ONES ALL by Jean Rik hoff —a novel that purports to lay bare the animal desires that smoulder within its eight female characters. De spite the wild promises of its cover, the writing is at a sustained high level. (Panther; 7/6.) Also received in the Fontana series: SHABBY TIGER and its se quel, RACHEL ROSING, both by Howard Spring; THE CONSTANT IMAGE by Marcia Davenport—re viewed in PIM when it first appeared

In 1960; This Desert Place, A

novel of Africa by Siefned Stander.

Also Ten Little Niggers By

Agatha Christie; MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD by Rex Stout; and TIME BOMB by Hartley Howard—all who dunnits. (All at 5/6 except the last two, both 4/-.) From the Pan thriller and adven ture department we have: INSPEC

Tor West Leaves Town By

John Creasey; BROWN ON RESO

Lution And Payment De

FERRED, both by C. S. Forester;

And Department Of Queer

COMPLAINTS by Carter Dickson. (All 4/- each).

From Corgi Books there are; THE

Winter After This Summer

by Stanley Ellin and THE BLACK,

The Grey And The Gold B>

Norman R. Ford—both in the

“powerful” modern writing-school ol

American life-with-sex; and DECI SION AT DELPHI by Helen Mac Innes, which was reviewed in PIM several years ago, (All at 7/6.) Among the oddments there i: TARAS BULBA by Robert W Krepps, which is based on a movu starring Yul Brynner and Tony Cur tis (from Gold Medal Books; 4/-)

The Nine Wrong Answers B]

John Dickson Carr—a mystery (Ban tarn Books; 4/9); MARKED FOI MURDER—a Mike Shane myster by Brett Halliday (Dell Books; 4/9) and THE BEATS, a cultural collec tion of poems, stories and social cri ticism by some American writers (Gold Medal Books; 4/-.) (Pan and Fontana books from Wn Collins (Overseas) Ltd.; Corgi, Panthe and other books from Gordon and Goto (A/asia.) Ltd.).