The Paperback

A Newcomer In

Field

Horwitz Publications, once best known as publishers of low-cost, pulp thrillers, have now entered the better-class Australian paperback field —one that is already pretty crowded with local and overseas claims to mass-readership. The Horwitz books cover originals as well as reprints.

AMONG the latest of the pro ductions are: DRAGON ARMY, by Colin Mason, a well-known commentator on Asian affairs. He is a New Zealander, but in 1956 became Aus tralian Broadcasting Commission correspondent in Singapore with a field of operations that stretched from Burma east to Japan.

In 1963 he was seconded as Aus tralian adviser to the Thai Govern ment on broadcasting—his main job being to use radio to combat a major Peking attempt to subvert Thai villagers by the same means.

He has thus had great opportunity to study Asian Communism on the march—the force that conquered China was behind the emergency in Malaya, the French retreat in Indo- China and the years of unrest in Indonesia, Burma, Philippines and Korea—and the force we are still fighting today in Vietnam. An original (7/6).

THE ASTRONAUTS, by Anthony Some. An account of the pioneers of the Space Age from Yuri Gagarin in April, 1961, to Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad in August, 1965.

An original (5/-).

IMAGES IN ASPIC, by Charmian Clift. This is a selection from her articles which have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and Mel bourne Herald since she returned to Australia in 1964 after 14 years in Greece. Edited by her husband George Johnston. (7/6).

Naked Under Capricorn

—a novel, by Olaf Ruhen. A story of survival and success—and disil lusion—in the stony heart of Austra lia’s Centre. First published in the US in 1958; republished as a Corgi book in 1959. (6/6). (Published by Horwitz Publications Inc.

Pty. Ltd., Sydney. Distributed by Gordon & Gotch).