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New Novels

Despair unknown DAVID WADE When She Was Good Philip Roth (Cape 25s) Greenstone Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Seeker and Warburg 25s) Every Man's Brother Norman Lewis (Heine- mann 25s)......

The Good Companion

BOOKS ANTHONY BURGESS Who collaborated with W. S. Gilbert on The Happy Land? Which great novel-sequence is based on a metaphysical conception of the unreality and reversibility......