Paperbacks

Best of the Paperbacks

Fact:

Fontana Golf Book, By Louis

T. Stanley. A much-reprinted, illus trated manual designed to improve your skill or start you off on the game. Tuck it into your golfing jacket next time you drive down the fairway. (Fontana, 60c.)

Ring Of Bright Water And

The Rocks Remain, By Gavin

Maxwell. Two classics, the second a sequel, about a man who kept otters in the Western Highlands of Scotland, written by the man who kept them. Warm, unique accounts of nature. (Pan illustrated, each 80c.) JUTLAND, by Captain Donald Macintyre. Detailed re-creation of the 1916 sea battle between the British and German fleets, and a fascinating postmortem into the rights and wrongs of the British controversy which followed it. A most readable naval history. (Pan illustrated, 80c.) DAWN OF D-DAY, by David Howarth, explains what happened to the first wave of the Second Front.

Told through the eyes of about 30 men who took part in various units of that vast operation. (Fontana.)

Flynn Of The Inland, By

lon Idriess. The story of John Flynn and his Australian Flying Doctor Service, first published in 1932, and now in Pacific Books at 60c.

PHOTOGRAPHY, by Philip Got lop, ARPS, FRSA, is an illustrated Pan Original on all aspects of picture taking, developing and printing.

There’s a useful chapter on photo graphy in tropical climates, particu larly dealing with formulas. (80c.) SEX, by young biologist Susan Michelmore, is a clinical outline of sexual reproduction, produced as part of a new Pan Science Series. Facts without flame. (80c.)

The Living World, By Dr. C.

L. Duddington. Pan Science Series.

Animals and plants and how they’ve evolved. There’s a chapter on shells, the seashore and sea creatures, and another on the current state of

knowledge on heredity. ($1.15.)

LOUIS PASTEUR, another in the Pan Science Series. Dr. John Mann covers Pasteur’s career, stressing his research achievements and what they have meant to the world. (60c.)

You And Your Brain, By

Judith Groch. Information and mis information on how the brain works. (Pan Science Series, 80c.)

Drown Proofing, By Fred

Lanoue, outlines a survival technique of staying afloat indefinitely without tiring in deep water, regardless of age, ability to swim, or state of dress.

The method has been taught widely in US colleges. (Pan illustrated, 60c.) Fiction:

While The Billy Boils.

Pacific Books are publishing Henry Lawson’s famous stories in two volumes under the original title, and this is Series One, totalling 31 stories. (60c.)

The Pan Jack London.

Comprises The Call of the Wild, and 17 of Jack London’s short stories, with an introduction by A. Calder- Marshall. Good value at 80c.

Journey Into Fear, The

Mask Of Dimitrios And The

NIGHT-COMERS, are perhaps Eric Ambler’s best-read chillers. (Fontana, all 60c.)

The Venetian Affair, By

Helen Maclnnes, is a fat serving of Maclnnes’ mystery with the usual satis fying Maclnnes backgrounding, this time in Venice. (Fontana.)