Best Of The Paperbacks

These are the best of the latest release of paperbacks:

Novels: Two famous ones by Taylor Caldwell—DEAß AND GLORIOUS PHYSICIAN, the epic novel of St.

Luke, and THIS SIDE OF INNOCENCE (passion and intrigue in three generations). (Fontana;

7/6). The Way To The

LANTERN, by Audrey Erskine Lindop, a bawdy tale of the French revolution. (Fontana; 5/6). SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE, by William Styron, about contemporary America but set mainly in Italy. (Corgi; 7/6).

NO HIGHWAY, by the late Nevil Shute. Drama on a flight across the Atlantic. (Pan; 5/6). SANDAL WOOD ISLAND, Russell Foreman’s adventure of early Fiji—the sequel to his LONG PlG—both reviewed in hard cover by PIM. (Pan; 5/6).

The Wind Cannot Read By

the author of “The World of Susie Wong”, Richard Mason. The girl in the love story this time is Japanese. (Pan; 5/6). HORN

Blower In The West Indies,

by C. S. Forester. More of the same.

Pan; 5/6). Key To The Door,

by Alan Sillitoe, starts in Notting ham and ends up in Malaya during the emergency. Raw passion. (Pan;

8/9). The Doctor Is Sick,

by Anthony Burgess. The first bit of humour among the month’s offerings, (Pan: 5/6).

Practical Help:

Making A House A Home,

by Marion Harris, LEARNING TO COOK, by Marguerite Patten,

Straight And Crooked

THINKING, by Robert H. Thouless,

The Pan Book Of Letter

WRITING, by K. Graham Thomson,

Your Emotional Problems,

by Peter Fletcher, GOOD SPEAK ING, by Mrs. A. M. Henderson, are all practical books, most of them originals, designed to straighten out problems or people. (Pan Pipers.

Learning To Cook Is 7/6, All

others 5/6.)

Something Special:

Reformation Europe,

1517-59, by G. R. Elton, is one of 12 paperbacks which will comprise the Fontana History of Europe. The books cover the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of World War 11. Fat, and well indexed. (Fontana Library; 12/6). LIVES OF THE POETS, by Samuel Johnson.

selected and introduced by S. C.

Roberts. Johnson’s account of the lives and the works of eminent English poets. (Fontana Library;

12/6). The Psalms: A New

Translation. From the Hebrew by a team of scholars, they are arranged for singing. Musical editions and gramophone records of many of these Psalms are also available. (Fontana;

5/6). The Path To Leader

SHIP, an analysis of the qualities which make men leaders —by one of them —in this case Field Marshal Montgomery. (Fontana; 5/6.) Murder: There are three Agatha Christie’s:

The Murder At The Vicar

Age, Murder At The Gallop

And A Murder Is Announced

—and all are fair average quality Agatha Christie fare. (Fontana; 5/6 each).

Died In The Wool, By New

Zealander Ngaio Marsh mixes murder with a New Zealand sheep station and espionage. (Fontana; 5/6.) The War: ANZIO. by Wynford Vaughan- Thomas, is an account, illustrated, of the bitter four months battle for the Italian beach-head. (Pan; 7/6).

The Wooden Horse, By Eric

Williams, the famous escape story that is now a legend. (Fontana; 5/6).

Scramble, By W-Cdr. J. R. D.

Braham, the memoirs of Britain’s most decorated fighter pilot who has the triple DSO, a triple DFC and the AFC. (Pan Illustrated; 5/6).

MY 100 CHILDREN, by Lena Kuchler-Silberman, is a documentary of how a Jewish woman in Poland rescued refugee children from hunger and disease. (Pan 5/6). AN AFFAIR OF MEN, by Errol Brathwaite, a worthwhile novel, set in wartime Bougainville. The hard

cover by this New Zealand writer was reviewed in PIM a year or two ago. (Fontana; 5/6). COVENANT WITH DEATH, by John Harris, is now something of a classic about a typical Kitchener unit and how it fared in World War I. (Pan; 7/6.) (All our copies from William Collins (Overseas) Sydney.) Australiana

Gallows On The Sand, By

Morris West. This was one of the first novels written by this world wide, best-seller author and long before he found his metier in the by-ways of Roman Catholicism, This is a story of love, life and buried Spanish gold on an island on the Great Barrier Reef, North Queens land. It was first published only in 1956, which only goes to prove how far a novelist with what it takes can travel in seven years.

Try Anything Once, By

Frank Clune. One of the first— if not the first —literary efforts of this writing-machine. In it he de scribes how he ran away from home in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, and in the course of his wanderings all over the world became a US cavalry trooper, ship’s stoker, lumberjack, clown, paper-boy, and 57 other things before he settled down as accountant and author. It was pub lished originally in 1933.

Lasseter’S Last Ride, By Lon

L. Idriess. This early model Idriess was one of his best and most popu lar. It was first published in 1931 and was reprinted over 30 times before the present paper back edi tion. Lasseter found a reef of gold in Central Australia, near the WA border, before World War I: three years later he re-located it but took incorrect bearings on the reef and again lost it. A WA Government expedition set out to find it in 1916, but was turned back by hostile natives and it was not until the De pression years that a well-equipped expedition, led by Lasseter, set out to try to re-locate it. Idriess’ book is the story of that expedition.

THE FURY, by E. V. Timms.

This is part of the Australian saga written by Timms in the decade im mediately prior to his death. This particular segment covered the Vic torian gold-rush era of the 1850’s.

(All Above In Pacific Books.

Published by Angus and Robertson Ltd.

Price, 5/6 each.)