6 OCTOBER 1967, page 14

New Novels

Desert victory GEORGE CLIVE The Smaller Sky John Wain (Macmillan 21s) Gone the Time Tony Gray (Heinemann 30s) The Time of the Hero Mario Vargas Llosa (Jonathan Cape 30s) Jupiter......

Jove's Daughter

TIBOR SZAMUELY Russia is getting ready to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1917 revolution. Up and down the country preparations are in full swing: flustered factory......