25 OCTOBER 1969, page 19
New Novels
At ease Maurice CAPITANCHIK A Single Summer with L.B. Derek Marlowe (Cape 30s) Big Bob Georges Simenon (Hamish Hamil- ton 18s) The Studhorse Man Robert Kroetsch (Macdonald 30s)......
Royal Wraith
JAMES POPE-HENNESSY Queen Alexandra Georgina Battiscombe (Constable 50s) The task which Mrs Battiscombe set herself in writing this fair-minded and workmanlike biography of the......
Onion Core
JOHN FLETCHER The Long Sonata of the Dead Michael Robinson (Hart-Davis 65s) am beginning to lose count of the books written on Beckett ; there were over thirty at the last......