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A selection of recent paperbacks

FICTION Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis, Picador, £3.95 A Fanatic Heart by Edna O'Brien, Pen- guin, £4.95 Police at the Funeral and Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham. Penguin, £3.95 each The Colours of War and The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone by Matt Cohen, Penguin, £3.95 each The Adventures of Speedfall by John Ful- ler, Penguin, £2.95 Men and Angels by Mary Gordon, Pen- guin, £2.95 Final Payments by Mary Gor- don, Black Swan, £3.95 Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch, Penguin, £2.95 The Evening Star and Looking Backwards by Colette, The Women's Press, £3.95, £4.95.

Happy to be Here by Garrison Keillor, Faber, £3.95 The Silver Age by James Lasdun, King Penguin, £3.50 The Ruined Boys and Image of a Society by Roy Fuller, Hogarth Press, £4.95 The Brandon Papers by Quentin Bell, Grafton, £2.95 each A Maggot by John Fowles, Pan, £3.50 My World and Welcome to it by James Thurber, Methuen, £4.95 The Tenth Man by Graham Greene, Pen- guin £1.95 The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, Paladin, £3.50 NON-FICTION .

Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters edited by John Jolliffe, Century, £5.95 Gissing: A Life in Books by John Halperin, OUP, £6.95 Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by Hesketh Pearson, Hamish Hamilton, £7.95 The Men Who Ruined India by Philip Mason, Pan, £4.95 Mayhew's London Underworld edited by Peter Quennell, Century, £6.95 Ludwig Fieck: A Literary Biography by Roger Paulin, OUP, £12.95 Asking for Trouble by Donald Woods, Penguin, £3.95 Labour and the Left in the 1930s by Ben Pimlott, Allen & Unwin , £8.95 Cultivated Fruits of Britain by F. A. Roach, Blackwell, £7.95 M. R. James: An Informal Portrait by Michael Cox, OUP, £5.95 Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robin- son, Paladin, £8.95 Immodest Acts by Judith C. Brown, OUP, £4.95 The Hills of Adonis by Colin Thubron, Penguin, £3.95 The Spaniards by John Hooper, Penguin, £3.95 Homosexuality and Literature by Jeffrey Meyers, Athlone, £9.95 The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Sothern, Cresset Library, £5.95 Freud for Historians by Peter Gay, OUP, £5.95 Twelve Days by Vita Sackville-West, Michael Haag, £4.95 The Pub and the People by Mass Observa- tion, Cresset Library, £5.95 Gwen John 1876-1939 by Susan Chitty, Hodder and Stoughton, £8.95 Promenades and People and Places by Richard Cobb, OUP, £4.95 each You May Well Ask: A Memoir Naomi Mitchison, Flamingo, £3.50 Finally Truffaut by Don Allen, Paladin, £4.95 Stevie: A Biography of Stevie Smith by Jack Barbera and William McBrien, Papermac, £7.95 Poetry Selected Poems 1954-1982 by John Fuller, King Penguin, £3.95 Poems 1913-1956 Benoit Brecht, Methuen, £6.95 Terry Street by Douglas Dunn, Faber & Faber, £3.95