A Mixed Bag of Paperbacks

As always there is something for everybody among the paperbacks. Here is a selection from the latest releases:

Authors in Batches: Steinbecks are available this month in sizes to suit every purse—from EAST OF EDEN at 8/9 to THE

Pearl And Burning Bright

at 4/-. Also available THE

Winter Of Our Discontent,

At 7/6; Sweet Thursday, 5/6;

and THE MOON IS DOWN, at 4/-.

No one now need be without a Steinbeck. (All Pan.) Hammond Innes, on the other hand has come in threes—all at 5/6.

Attack Alarm And Wreckers

MUST BREATHE are early war time models and have backgrounds of the RAF and submarines respectively. THE LAND GOD GAVE TO CAIN, however, was first published only in 1958 and was reviewed by PIM at that time.

Background is the construction of the Labrador railway. (All Fontana.) Frederic Mullally has two lusty offerings to fans: DANSE

Macabre And Man With Tin

FRUMPET and both were immediate oest-seller material. DANSE MACABRE is told through a news paperman who follows a story and i girl whom he has never seen from Paris to Tangier via the Cote I’Azur, Rome and Barcelona. Press, public relations and publicity agencies : orm the unhallowed background of

Man With Tin Trumpet. It

dso deals with professional double lealing and raw sex. (Pan; 5/6 ea.) Historical Novels:

The Agony And The

ECSTASY, by Irving Stone. Nothing put full cinemascope and full echnicolour would have done justice o that giant amongst men, Michelangelo, creator of David, painter of the ceiling of the Sistine Ehapel, architect of the dome of St. 3 eters—but America’s top-ranking listorical novelist has gone a long vay to meeting requirements. First published in 1961, it was soon in pest-seller ranks. (Fontana; 8/9.) Based on the true story of a Scottish girl, Helen Gloag, A GIFT 7 OR A SULTAN, by Olga String ellow, needs a smaller canvas than Michelangelo but only slightly mailer. Red-headed Helen was :aptured by pirates while migrating

to America in the 18th century, sold into slavery and was presented as a gift to Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. As in the best untrue romances the two became devoted although they did not always live happily ever after. (Fontana; 5/6.) Other Novels:

Pomp And Circumstance

is one of Noel Coward’s few excursions into novel writing and is an extravaganza blended from musical comedy and Coward’s own more or less permanent sojourns on tropic shores. The action is supposed to take place on an island outpost of Empire in the South Pacific which is thrown into convulsions by the threatened arrival of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. It was, however, published in 1960, a couple of years before Coward shed the light of his presence on Fiji for a few brief days. (Pan; 7/6.) 80,000 SUSPECTS, by Elleston Trevor, a medical drama to end all medical dramas has been made into a movie by the Rank organisation starring Claire Bloom and Richard Johnson. (Pan; 5/6.) RAMPAGE, by Allan Caillou, has

also had movie treatment by Warner- Pathe with Robert Mitchum, Jack Hawkins and Elsa Martinelli in the starring roles of this Malayan jungle epic. (Pan; 5/6.) Thrillers:

This Sweet Sickness, By

Patricia Highsmith, is billed as a “compulsive chiller” that is “brilliant”, “frightening” and “superb” in its sense of suspense. (Pan; 5/6.)

Death Comes At The End

—a 1945 vintage Agatha Christie during her Middle Eastern Period. (Pan; 5/6.)

The Flying Squad, By Edgar

Wallace, was first published in 1928 and can rightly be regarded as verg ing on the Classical Period of Who dunnits—if you happen to like Old Classics. If you don’t you might just regard it as old corn. (Pan; 4/-.) Miscellaneous:

The Magic Touch, By

Joseph Kessel, a novelist making an essay into fact to tell the story of Felix Kersten, the Doctor of Manual Therapy—or masseur—who was able to soothe the cramps out of Himmler’s stomach. Because of Himmler’s attachment to him he was able to save thousands of Dutchmen from deportation to Poland and even a greater number of Jews from extermination. (Pan; 5/6.)