New Novels

TILL I COME BACK TO You -- Thomas Bell--Little, -- Little, Brown ($2). This novel, laid beyond the skyscrapers, where "the great Brooklyn plain stretches endlessly, formlessly," in "streets without end, without number, without rememberable names," is the story of a Sunday of the Bridges family and their friends. Till I Come Back to You starts out to retell the best story of our time -- the richness of the experience of a young couple planning marriage before he goes to war -- remains warm and moving when it stays on that simple subject and turns into something diffuse, incoherent, sometimes ugly, when ever it strays away.

THE MINISTRY OF FEAR -- Graham Greene -- Viking ($2.50). A tall, stooping, lean man with a sharp narrow face, a twisted nose and a sensitive mouth, won a cake at an English fair and found him self in a maze of fifth columnists -- the cake, intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk -- years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character.

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