SOME jMT NEW NOVELS MARGERY SHARP'S novels have sold some six million copies, so a warm welcome is assured for her latest. It is THE SUN IN SCORPIO, a bittersweet story of three English children and their lives after they spent an idyllic sunny childhood on an island near Malta. Told with Miss Sharp’s usual charm, wit and vitality. Price 22/-. FLETCHER KNEBF.L, co-author of the best-selling "Seven Days In May” evokes the world of power and power politics in NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID (Price 26/-). With a paranoic as U.S. President you can expect exciting reading and that’s what you’ll get. Another American novel called LITTLE BIG MAN has won a lot of critical acclaim. The ‘Times Literary Supplement,” for example, described it as “a long serious funny novel about the old West a rambling, exhilirating and entertaining piece of fiction." THOMAS BERGER is the author and the price is 31/ . We have limited stocks of other novels which have been much discussed. The first is NO HEAVEN FOR GUNGA DIN (Price 17/-) which Peter Sellers describes as "possibly the sweetest, most delicately funny book I've ever come across”; the second GUNTER GRASS’S major work. DOG YEARS (Price 43/-). Brief mention, too, of two other interesting new novels NICHOLAS MONSARRATS SOMETHING TO HIDE (Price 16/ ) and ERIC LAMBERTS MacDOUGAL’S FARM (19/-). ' J SHORT STORIES SKIT great short stories of the world ■ “ ,he of 3 new anthology BUMtCI'MWP! which is well worth n °tmg It contains mMWIwIwIK® titty stories from a wonderful line-up KHTv''' ol writers including Caldwell, Capote. Cheever. Faulkner, Greene, Mailer, WnHaktu - McCullers, O'Connor, Pirandello. ® Saroyan and Williams. The price is „ 31/-. - ' We would like to mention, too that i, , ■ we h3V » new stocks °* COLLECTED t STORIES OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD * ...... J (31/). THE BEST OF 0. HENRY (26/-) and MORE 0. HENRY (31/-). w IBOOKSaLERS • STATIONERS • PRINTERS MANUFACTURERS OF "WARRIOR” STATIONERY.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 4
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