Best the Paperbacks

f ar BEHIND BAMBOO, by Rohan ivett, is a personal war diary. The ithor was a war correspondent in ngapore and was captured there 1942, He spent three years as a DW of the Japanese on the island id on the notorious Burma-Siam ilway. (Pacific; 7/6.)

The Desert Column, By Lon

Idriess. This is one of the early oks from this author —first printed 1932—and one of the best. Idriess is a trooper with the sth Aus ilian Light Horse in Gallipoli and ales t i n e in World War I and is very personal diary of a typical istralian “Digger” covers the period ay, 1915 to January, 1918 when was invalided home unfit for rther service.

Boldness Be My Friend, By

chard Pape, is the autobiographical count of the capture and escape empts of a British airman in uman-occupied territory in World ar 11. Author Pape is currently irking in Port Moresby with the NG Administration and recently it back his Military Medal, award for the exploits recorded here, cause the Beatles were given the BE. (Pan, illustrated, 6/-.)

Strike Hard, Strike Sure,

Ralph Barker, is a collection of e accounts of British (including stralian) bomber expoits in World ir 11. (Pan, illustrated, 6/-.) stralian

Lhe Beckoning Shore And

Rever To Remain, By The

j E. V. Timms, is part of his ;a of colonial Australia. The first t'el covers early Sydney; the ond, early Perth, WA. (Pacific oks; 7/6 and 6/- respectively).

[He Sentimental Bloke &

HER VERSE, by C. J. Dennis, is author was in his hey-day at time of World War I and to i extent, perhaps, he is dated, vertheless, his verSe, especially t concerning the Bloke and reen, is part of the country’s folk s' and near the heart of every Aus ian. (Pacific Books; 6/-.)

Jushranger Of The Skies,

Arthur W. Upfield—an early poleon Bonaparte detective story

of the Australian outback. (Pacific Books; 6/-.) BRIGALOW, by R. S. Porteous.

One of the best novels of outback cattle station life to come out of Australia. It has humour, romance and authentic background. (Pacific Books; 7/6.)

The Silver City By Lon

Idriess, is the story of Broken Hill and the huge mining industry that provides the reason for its existence. (Pacific Books; 7/6.) Fiction SHABBY TIGER and its sequel, RACHEL ROSING, are two novels by Howard Spring that have seen many reprintings since they were first published in the mid-thirties.

Also by the same author, THERE IS NO ARMOUR, a first-person story told by Edward Pentecost, RA, who begins with his childhood in suburban Manchester and ends it, in 1946, after his personal holocaust of World War 11. (Fontana; 6/-; 6/-; 8/-.) NIGHT SONG is a first novel by Negro writer John Williams who takes New York’s jazz- world as his background and draws his characters from the interracial society that in habits it. (Fontana; 6/-.)

The Pretty Ones And

Whistle For The Crows, Both

by Dorothy Eden, are romances that border on being thrillers. The first concerns Emma and her new husband about whom she soon begins to hear rumours—of a disappearing ex-wife and a disappearing governess. There are equally mysterious deaths and scandals in the second novel, plus a background of southern Ireland. (Hodder; 6/- each).

From Here To Eternity,

James Jones, famous bestseller (six million copies) about US Army life, with a fair whack of sex and four letter words thrown in. This new reprint makes a whopping paperback of 800 pages. (Fontana; 9/-.)

The Thin Red Line, By James

Jones, almost as fat (500 pages) is available as a companion volume for the first time. More Army (this time on Guadalcanal) and more four letter words. (Fontana; 8/-.)

Thrillers

Go Ahead With Murder,

by Michael Halliday, prodigious writer of thrillers who now has a couple of score to his credit. Cliff Benyon, expatriate American living on the Riviera, has not been back to his family for 20 years. But within minutes of learning that he has inherited $3 million he is murdered and an imposter takes his place. (Hodder; 6/-.)

Lord Edgware Dies And

The Mirror Cracked From

SIDE TO SIDE, both by Agatha Christie. The first was originally published in 1933 and the second in 1962. (Fontana; 6/- each).