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Lost Laugh

MICHAEL FFOLKES Hancock Freddie Hancock and David Nathan (William Kimber 42s) The quality of identification with his au- dienge, the common touch, the exposed nerve of a......

Dark Reds

LAURENCE MARTIN The Struggle for the Middle East: The Soviet Union and the Middle East 1958-68 Walter Laqueur (Routledge and Kegan Paul 50s) Half of this volume consists of......

New Novels

Uncommon sense Maurice CAPITANCHIK That Wonderful November Ercole Patti translated by Isabel Quigly (Chatto 21s) The Spaniard Bernard Clavel translated by W. G. Corp (Harrap......