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Thrillers And Crime

The Wrong Side Of The

SKY, by Gavin Lyall, is in the Fleming and Hammond Innes tradi tion. Tough and British. (Pan; 60c).

Atlantic Fury, Attack

Alarm, And Campbell’S King

DOM, all by the master, Hammond Innes. The last two have been re printed many times but Atlantic Fury is a new one for paperback. (Fon tana. All 60c).

The Joker And The Cal

ENDAR, both by Edgar Wallace, who is tame cat these days against Innes, Fleming and the rest. (Both Pan; 60c).

GENTLY SAHIB, by Alan Hunter, is one of the Chief Superintendent Gently thrillers, this one involving a tiger and a body. (Pan; 60c).

Battle For Inspector

WEST, by John Creasy, includes a blackmailed millionaire, a kidnapped bride and, of course, Inspector West. (Pan; 60c).

Dead Men Rise Up Never,

by Christopher Landon, who is better mown for his Ice Cold In Alex.

Murder and intrigue. (Pan; 60c).

The Case Of The Long

LEGGED MODELS, by Erie Stanley 3ardner, is, of course, another Perry Mason, with the usual mixture that iefies description. (Pan; 60c).

A Dragon For Christmas

Md The Eyes Around Me, By

jayin Black, who keeps pace in his hrillers by assuring that no paragraph s more than one sentence long. (Fon ana. Both 60c).

Ten Little Niggers, By

\gatha Christie, should perhaps be ler best-known mystery. (Fontana 50c).

Great Stories Of Mystery

IMAGINATION, selected by Iryan Douglas. A collection of eight pine thrillers, including “The Canter ;ille Ghost”, by Oscar Wilde and idgar Alan Poe’s the “Fall of the louse of Usher”. (Fontana; 60c).

TALES OF UNEASE, edited by John Burke. Shorter, lesser known or new stones in the same vein, ineluding “The Sound and the Silence” by D’Arcy Niland. Meant to make the back of your neck prickle and some of the stories do. (Pan; 60c).

SO DISDAINED is one of Nevil Shute’s early stories, set between the two wars and involving espionage and treason. (Pan; 60c).

Non-Fiction CA „ „ .

T. Fat And Grow Slim,

by Richard Mackarness, is the now famous book by the British writer

based on the William Banting diet.

The theory is you can eat as much as you want of the rights foods non-carbohydrate—so that your body burns up its excess fat. The diet brings you down to your correct weight, and no further. It really WOrks * (Fontana ’ 60c )n TPAMrc DcnDT „ , ,

Strange People, By Frank

Edwards, is a strange book about human peculiarities. True stories of people who don’t sleep, of boys with dog faces and a girl who could read unopened letters. Off-beat oddities, (Pan; 60c). (Over)

Paperbacks, continued PARDON MY BOOTS, by Margaret Britt, tells of a young horse-crazy English girl who obtains a job on an outback Queensland cattle-station as bookkeeper, marries the head stock man and goes droving with him. An amusing and observant woman’s-eye view of the outback and its characters. (Humorbooks; 80c).

Children Of The Sun, By

Morris West, is the story of the Naples slums which helped make this Aus tralian writer famous. (Pan illustrated; 60c).

Ten Thousand Eyes, By

Richard Collier. Real life account of a group of French resistance workers involved in complicated espionage before D-Day. (Fontana illustrated; 80c).

GIVE US THIS DAY, by Sidney Stewart. POW story by an American captured in the Philippines and who ended captivity in Japan. (Pan; 60c).

Fiction

Man Without A Shadow,

by Colin Wilson (of Outsider fame).

Gerard Sorme decides he will de vote his notebooks to a careful analysis of his own sexual experi ences. Fruity. (Pan; 80c).

The Offenders, By R. H.

Ward is more sex, teenage style.

They’re old enough to know better and young enough not to care. (Pan; 60c).

Royal Flush, The Proud

Servant, The Stranger

Prince And The Gay

GALLIARD, are block-buster his torical novels by Margaret Irwin.

The last is the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, and of Bothwell, her lover. (All Pan; 80c).

LOVE IS ETERNAL, by Irving Stone. The love story of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, told by the man who wrote The Agony and the Ecstacy. (Fontana; 90c).

The Carthaginian, By

Ronald Bassett. The last days of Carthage, with a full measure of barbarism. (Pan; 60c).

REDHEAP, by Norman Lindsay.

This novel of life in a small Aus tralian town was first published in London in the 1930’s and promptly banned in Australia until 1960. It is difficult to see why. (Humorbooks; SI).

LANTANA LANE, by Eleanor Dark. Sea-captains have the reputa tion of being frustrated farmers at heart, but much the same may be said of lawyers, bus-drivers, teachers and bank clerks if the example set by the residents of Lantana Lane is common.

All forsook their former occupations to become the despair of economists as small farmers in the heart of the Queensland pineapple belt. Eleanor Dark brings it all to life in this re print. (Humorbooks; $1).

The Things They Do To

YOU, by John O’Grady. Australian author of the best-selling They’re a Weird Mob, who has come a long way since he lived in Apia, writes of his experiences as a patient in a Syd ney hospital, where he was admitted suffering from a tropical disease.

Those who have suffered will find much in common with the author. (Humorbooks; 80c). (Fontana and Pan from William Collins (Australia) Ltd.; Humorbooks from Ure Smith Ltd.)