... : Reviewed by Trevor ...

... THIS week introduces a new author-- or one, at least, who is new to me and who is a very happy find. Mr. John Prebble's short novel WHERE THE SEA BREAKS (Seeker and Warburg. 6s.) is not faultless; it is not even very convincing as far as its theme goes, but it is the work of a man who can write as distinct from the work of a man who has learned to sling words together acceptably. His theme is ...

... ''Bird In Hand (Arts) By Horace Horsnel] KIND hearts, sang the poet somewhat optimistically, are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. In this rural comedy John Drinkwater, poet and author of Abraham Lincoln, endorses that sentiment in the good old-fashioned way by suiting fact to fiction, making a country inn keeper's lovely daughter and the romantic young heir of a local ...