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Dark Glass

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL Jean Cocteau: the Man and the Mirror Elizabeth Sprigge and Jean-Jacques Kihm (Gollancz 42s) This, I am sure, will always be a useful, but it is not a......

Virtue Its Own Reward Books

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH Miss Iris Murdoch is a popular novelist, but one who has been wholeheartedly accepted by the literary establishment. She has been acclaimed as 'original,'......

New Novels

Laymen CLEMENT FREUD The Do-Gooders Alfred Grossmann (Heine- mann 25s) A Horse's Head Evan Hunter (Constable 25s) The Sinner's Bell Kevin Casey (Faber 25s) The current market......