The Taste Of Ashes. By Howard Browt! Ii (gollancz, 12s. 6d.)
The old, proud family v i l e wayward children; the cynically idealistic pri v :,a, dick; the pints of bourbon in shabby hotel b rooms; the sexy passes that never quite make °......
Death In Seven Volumes. By Douglas 1 , 1 Browne....
1 s. 6d.) If you can beti d io in messages from beyond the grave spelled ont o , code in an obscure seven-volume set in the 1 don Library, and in a gourmet deeply c onceri t e ,......
Floundering On The Veld
The Boer War. By Edgar Holt. (Putnam, 25s.) POLITICALLY, the Boer War was nearly as squalid an enterprise as Suez, and militarily it was perhaps even more ,majestically......
New Novels
Sprouting Colossus THOSE who remember with pleasure such superbly imaginative novels of Rex Warner's as The Aerodrome or Men of Stones should be warned straight away that The......
It's A Crime Captive. By The Gordons. (macdona Ld ,' I Is.
6d.) Authentic-seeming, near-documellt at i 1 f of police hunt for couple of killers and the; school-marm hostage in present-day Nay ° f country. Exciting enough as a straight......
Knock And Wait Awhile. By William Re Weeks. (muller, 15s.)
Over-detailed cold-war t it ''0 ) ler, with American agent out to prevent Anierie' reporter (female, attractive) from going 00/ the curtain. Terse, near-Hemingwayish prose 11 ,......
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