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Pick Of The Paperbacks

THERE'S some fascinating reading among the new Penguin fiction. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (4s. 6d.), by Mordecai Richter, a brilliant story of a Jewish family in......

Stockpot

ALTHOUGH this is Mr. Malamud's second collec- tion of short stories, there is a makeshift look about it. Perhaps this is because he has had to include work that goes back as far......

Out Of The Past

The Day the Call Came. By Thomas Hinde. (Hodder and Stoughton, 16s.) Smoke Island. By Antony Trew. (Collins, 18s.) 'THAT was the day the call came. It came without warning. For......