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New Thrillers

Slices of life CYRIL RAY The Women of Peasenhall R. J. White (Macmillan 21s) Cockleburr Robert Crawford (Constable 25s) Kill with Kindness Dell Shannon (Gollancz 25s) The Case......

Bird's Eye View

C. HUGH LAWRENCE The Christian Centuries Vol II: The Middle Ages David Knowles and Dimitri Obolensky Orton Longman and Todd 70s) An admirer of Professor Knowles's writing ., can......

The Great Shadow

TIBOR SZAMUELY Only One Year Svetlana Alliluyeva trans- lated by Paul Chavchavadze (Hutchinson 35s) `Lenin laid the foundation for a one-party system, for terror and the inhuman......