J7VIL INTENT, by John Wain wright. Black candles gutter in a lonely part of the English country side as a fertility rite is performed— a ritual that demands a human sacrifice. Gripping stuff, written by a British policeman who sets the hackles rising as his fellow-officers probe into the eerie world of witches, warlocks and black magic.

Recommended reading for those who live alone in isolated houses with

creaking floorboards,-

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(Collins, for the Crime Club. $A1.90.) EX)R children of all ages is Seat Bay, by Geoffrey Dutton and Dean Hay. Hay is the photographer who illustrates this book with fine big photographs of seals. The story is set in a lonely island off Aus tralia’s southern coastline, and the heroes, apart from the seals, are two boys who follow an old man kangaroo to a bay full of seals. The photographs make the book, and

production is high class.

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(SEAL BAY. Collins. $A1.95.)