Some New

Novels

A Summer At Home, By Susan

Gillespie; WHISPER OF DARKNESS, by Margaret Lynn; and

Return To Glenshael, By

Mary Elgin are all light novels, the first one concerning a migrant family in Australia which return “home” for a visit. (Published by Geoffrey Bles at 20/-; Hodder at 23/-; and Hodder, 23/-).

The Smell Of Bread And

other stories, by Yury Kazakov. This author is regarded as one of the non-political writers of con temporary Russia a number of whom have emerged since the “thaw” and are now published abroad as well as in the Soviet Union. He writes with a sense of irony and a penetrat ing observation and in doing it pro vides a small window through which the Western reader can view the Russian scene. (THE SMELL OF BREAD. Harvill Press. 31/6).

The Waters Under The

EARTH, by John Moore is a nostalgic affair concerning the culture clash between the new and the old England. The current Seldom, whose ancestors have occupied the Manor for 400 years, see a parallel in the fact that the red squirrels which for even longer have lived in their oaks, are being driven out by the more vigorous grey squirrels. If the Seldons are red, then the children of their gardener, Fenton, are the grey. Tough, ambitious, pushing, intelligent and socialist, they leave little room for the Seldons.

According to the way you look at it, new hope for the future, or the fall of the last bastion of Old England, results from the union of the daughter of the “red squirrels” with a son of the “grey”.

(The Waters Under The Earth.

Collins. 35/-.)

Petticoat Farm, By Sally T.

Ollivier. A pleasant story about New Zealand farming life that must be partly autobiographical. Mrs. Ollivier was one of six daughters who helped their parents run a dairy farm in the Bay of Plenty. Her fictional farmers have five daughters and many of the same problems.