... evening in Paris, becomes involved with an ex-Resistance gang, and undertakes to aid them in a project. What our hero (who speaks in the first person) expects to be a heroic rescue turns out to be a frightful act of revenge. To complain that the torture-scene ...

... Syria, then the Holy Land, enter the story; then there is London, and a lovers' Venice, before the heartbreaking end. One can speak of The Towers Of Trebizond almost endlessly, without touching is a reviewer shy? on this novel's poetry humanity, spiritual ...

... TV and radio will feature in these affairs. I give you three guesses at the name of one celebrity engaged. Ready Don't all speak together. Right first time. Gilbert Harding, of course. And I shall be much surprised if You-Know-Who doesn't turn up in some ...

... the Mount with Communism, has entertained Russian clerics and is generally known in Belgravian and Pimlico purlieus, not to speak of the popular Press, as THE RED PRIEST (Methuen. 15s.). In his tenets, in his love for the beautiful wife who half-reluctantly ...

... Dylan Thomas was playing with words. As the company have gained a more .assured command of the words the language has, so to speak, pumped its way into the bloodstream of the play with the enchanting consequence that verbal fantasy and visual reality have ...

... author takes as accepted that fighter pilots are in themselves a race one of the characters (it's true, semi-satiric- ally) speaks of his British counterparts as our noble cousins. Most of all because, while tragedy has been squared up to, bitter ness ...

... Spottiswoode 10s. 6d.), which has a highly ingenious plot and the welcome leaven of humour. The advertisements, as they say, speak highly of it, and so will 1. THE- DIEHARD (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) has the highly original merit of being not a whodunit but a ...

... has not forced himself to be correct in his attitude to anything. Hence, each page has honesty, colour and vivacity not to speak of infectious humour and great good-humour. All-in-all, our author thoroughly enjoyed himself. If you write a travel book ...

... major function has been put in one sentence, The Central School of Speech and Drama exists to provide healthy and natural speaking in everyday life, on the plat form and on the stage. What could be better than that Think of the diction of Dame Peggy and ...

... world united behind us Why, indeed, if the nitwits are united, if they are, in fact, nitwits But what if they aren't I cannot speak for other countries, but I don't believe Hollywood knows its England very well. In the course of my work, I move about the ...

... the international city of Tangier, has written a chatty and practical kind of book about choosing a house in that city. He speaks of his alteration to both the building and the garden, the new furnishings and his efforts to create a satisfactory pattern ...

... points. These modern, genial Scenes from Clerical Life should not on any account be missed. The jacket drawing is such a speaking picture of a country vicarage (as specified) that I mean in time to paste it inside the book which, needless to say, I intend ...