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New Novels

At ease Maurice CAPITANCHIK A Single Summer with L.B. Derek Marlowe (Cape 30s) Big Bob Georges Simenon (Hamish Hamil- ton 18s) The Studhorse Man Robert Kroetsch (Macdonald 30s)......

Royal Wraith

JAMES POPE-HENNESSY Queen Alexandra Georgina Battiscombe (Constable 50s) The task which Mrs Battiscombe set herself in writing this fair-minded and workmanlike biography of the......

Onion Core

JOHN FLETCHER The Long Sonata of the Dead Michael Robinson (Hart-Davis 65s) am beginning to lose count of the books written on Beckett ; there were over thirty at the last......