BOOKS
... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen NOVELISTS may hate this war, which destroys literary detachment, slashes royalties, and cuts paper supplies, but they cannot escape it. The Fiction Front widens. Three novels in this batch concern the present eruption, although one, refusing to be intimidated, merely has the laugh on it. I refer with chuckles to Envoy on Excursion (Michael Joseph 8s.), by Caryl ...