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New Novels

In retreat BARRY COLE Real People Alison Lurie (Heinemann 25s) Middle Ground Ursula Zilins4 (Longman 30s) What I'm Going to Do, I Think L. Woiwode (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 35s)......

Outside In

FRANK NORMAN The Frying-Pan Tony Parker (Hutchinson 45s) Grendon Underwood is Britain's only psy- chiatric prison. Without doubt, it represents the only ray of hope in the......

Rational Numbers

CLARENCE BROWN We Yevgeny Zamyatin translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney (Cape 35s) Written in Petrograd in 1920. this fantasy of a future totalitarian state has never been......