5 AUGUST 1949, page 28

Sitting Birds

Guns Wanted. By J. K. Stanford. (Faber. 15s.) Is there a Surtees of the dirt-track ? Does somebody write as engagingly about ice-hockey or all-in wrestling as Miss Dorothea......

Fiction

The Tormentors. By Richard Cargoe. (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) Boys and Girls Come Out to Play. By Nigel Dennis. (Eyre and Spottiswoodc. 11 s. 6d.) Love in a Cold Climate. By Nancy......