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New Novels

Women's rites HENRY TUBE Bruno's Dream Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Wind us 30s) Catherine Carter Pamela Hansford Johnson (Macmillan 42s) The Woman Destroyed Simone de Beauvoir......

New Thrillers

Habeas corpus REGINALD HERRING Past Praying For Sara Woods (Crime Club 30s) Silence Under Threat Belton Cobb (W. H. Allen 21s) Fuzz Ed McBain (Hamish Hamilton 21s) Your Secret......