All about bikes by a Kiwi

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 9 December 1975, Page 17

All about bikes by a Kiwi

One of the books Whitcoulls have printed and published in time for Christmas is on anything and everything to do with motor-bikes. The wellpresented “Bikes” ($4.95) carries a -wealth of information from every angle of bike-riding and was written by Loren Robb, of Auckland. - Other local books out from Whitcoulls include “Before We Say Goodbye.” Denys Parsinson’s reminiscences about the remote hotel he r uns and the people that visit it. in the Marlborough Sounds; and two for railway buffs, “The Spirit of Steam” by Roy Sinclair and Gordon Troup, and “The Kingston Flyer" by Fred Miller. The continuing phenomenon at Whitcoulls. says New Zealand book manager J. W. B. Griffin, is the success of J. Bronowski’s “The Ascent of Man,” which is attractively and colourfully presented, and retails at $16.25. In the reference line you can’t go wrong with a “Guinness Book of Records,” a Pears Cyclopaedia, or a Junior Pears, There are plenty of good reference books like dictionaries of quotations, the Oxford Companion to English Literature and the Oxford Concise, and these come in all sizes. Then “War and Peace,” two volumes in a slip case, makes a good-looking gift. For children, Whitcoulls, has 100 annuals on sale. Most are related to television series, and printed in Britain. In some places these are offered at a reduced price, and it pays then to check they are not last year’s annuals. Some new novels avail-1 able are: • “The Great Train Robbery” ($7.25) by Michael Crichton, author of “The Andromeda Strain,” about a gold robbery between London and Paris’ in 1855. • “Night Of The Juggler”: ($7.95) by William Me-1 Givern, a novel of revenge, set in , New I York.

• “Stand Vp Virgin Soldiers" ($7.95) byLeslie Thomas, sequel to “The Virgin Soldiers.” about the author’s experiences in Malaya as a National Serviceman. • "The Zhukov Briefing” ($8.60) by Antony Trew. in which the Russians have developed the deadliest weapon known to man. • “The Time Of The Dragon” ($7.80) by Dorothy Eden, set in China in 1900. • “Curtain: Poirot's Last Case” ($7.80) by Agatha Christie, written 30 years; ago and held back to I climax the Poirot sequence. • "The Foam Of The River”' ($7.95) by Sheila Ross.' set i.r the writer’s birthplace, a Malaysian rubber plantation. • “The Lynmara Legacy” ($9.30) by Catherine Gaskin, in which a 17-year-old American girl is forced by her late grandfather’s will in 1931 to take up a new life in England.