28 JUNE 1963, page 20

Thrillers

In Nicholas Blake also investigates some mor- village dealings in The Deadly Joker (Cri 0 Club, 15s.). 'Local passions and bad bloo d thoroughly disturb the rural peace of N e......

Green Years

Zigzag to Timbuktu. By Nicholas Bennett. (Murray, 18s.) APPROPRIATELY enough, the first time I read Paul Bowles was on the terrace of a house in Colombo. Somewhere behind me a......

Listen To Mummy

As Caitlin Thomas sees it, her eighteen-year-old daughter is presented with a choice: either she can live bohemian (waking to each new hangover at the noonday knocking of the......