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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson, Phoenix, £10.99 No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully, Penguin, £6.99 A Life of Picasso: Volume I 1881-1906 by John Richardson, Pimlico, £15 The Year of Liberty by Thomas Pakenham, Phoenix, £7.99 Almost a Gentleman by John Osborne, Faber, £6.99 D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885- 1912, by John Worthen, Cambridge, £12.95 Diary of an Art Dealer, by Rene Gimpel, Pimlico, £9 The Big Three by Robin Edmonds, Penguin, £7.99 Lydia and Maynard: The Letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes, edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes, Papermac, £10.99 The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood, Pimlico, £10 The Myth of the Blitz by Angus Calder, Pimlico, £10 A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn, Pimlico, £10 Fiction: A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn, Penguin, £5.99 Monopolies of Loss by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber, £5.99 The Sins of the Father by Allan Massie, Sceptre, £5.99 The Battle for Christabel by Margaret Forster, Penguin, £5.99 How I Met My Wife and Other Stories by Nicholas Coleridge, Mandarin, £5.99 Mord Emly by William Pett Ridge, Robin Clark, £5.95 The Partnership and The Hide by Barry Unsworth, Phoenix, £4.99 each

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Necklace and Other Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Five Great Shod Stories by Jack London, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, The Misanthrope by Moliere, The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by 0.Henry, Dover Thrift Editions, 95 pence each Poetry: The Collected Poems of John Hewitt, edited by Frank Ormsby, The Black Staff Press, £14.95 The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde, Dover Thrift Editions, 95 pence