FICTION   Till we have faces I was reminded last night of the impression that C. S. Lewis' book, based on the myth of Psyche and Cupid, made on me as a teenager. He does not give the source of his title, except to say that the words were spoken by his heroine - "One other possible title has occurred to me: Till We Have Faces. (My heroine says in one passage, 'How can the gods meet us face to face till we have faces?')". So - we still do not know if he got the idea from Evagrius Ponticus from "On the [Evil] Thoughts". More comment here Amazon Reviews  J. G. Ballard's two detective novels "Super-Cannes" and "Cocaine Nights" deal with the problems of living abroad from different perspectives. These are not light holiday reading, but are thought-provoking. "Super-Cannes" explores living in an artificially created techno-park (modelled on Sophia Antipolis, near Antibes), where workaholism leads to the invention of explosive ways of stress release. "Cocaine Nights" examines retirement communities in Southern Spain -the consequences of boredom from having too much time, too much prosperity. Is struggle necessary to preserve our humanity? Do people deliberately seek evil to alleviate boredom or stress?  J. G. Ballard's last member of the trilogy is Millenium People. This carries the themes of stress and consumerism into the British context. The proposition of the novel is that "the middle-classes are the new proletariat", with the residents of Chelsea Marina, another gated community, so sick of school fees, private healthcare costs, stealth taxes and parking meters that they begin to dismantle the "self-imposed burdens" of civic responsibility and consumer culture. He deals with the protest movement and terrorism and examines the search for meaning in a meaningless universe. The book ends on a note of optimism, as the madness of the leader is exposed and the community begins to re-create itself. Review here ... Holiday reading has been the Sister Fidelma series, by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis) and three books by J. G. Ballard.