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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron, Pen- guin, £4.99 Soho in the Fifties by Daniel Farson, Michael Joseph, £8.95 Dispatches by Michael Herr, Picador, £3.95 The Compleat Woman by Valerie Grove, Hogarth, £4.95 Charles Laughton by Simon Callow, Methuen, £5.95 A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Ferinor, Penguin, £3.50 The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama, Fontana, £12.95 For Love & Money by Jonathan Raban, Picador, £4.95 Woodbrook and Nairn in Darkness and Light by David Thomson, Arena, £3.99 each Saint Genet by Jean Paul Sartre, Heine- mann, £8.95 The Enigmatic Edwardian: The Life of Reginald 2nd Viscount Esher by James Lees-Milne, Sidgwick, £8.95 The Golden Oriole by Raleigh Trevelyan, OUP, £8.95 '68: The Year of Barricades by David Caute, Paladin, £7.99 Ultra Goes to War by Ronald Lewin, Grafton, £4.99 Travels with a Superior Person by Lord Curzon, Sidgwick, £9.95 Cuzon's Persia edited by Peter King, Sid- wick, £9.95.

The Myriad Faces of War by Trevor Wilson, Polity Press, £14.95 S. J. Perelman by Dorothy Herrmann, Papermac, £7.95 The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Con- quest, Arrow, £5.99 Horatio Nelson by Tom Pocock, Cassell, £9.95

Fiction

Summer's Lease by John Mortimer, Pen- guin, £3.50 Like Men Betrayed by John Mortimer, Penguin, £2.99 White Noise by Don Delillo, Picador, £4.95 Elizabeth and Alexandra by Antony Lambton, Quartet, £5.95 The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd, Eland, £4.95 Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig, Faber, £4.95 The Golden Droplet by Michel Tournier, Methuen, £3.95 Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catas- trophes by Patricia Highsmith, Methuen, £2.95 The Strangers' Gallery by Jonathan Keates, Sceptre, £3.99 The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, Faber, £3.95 A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer, Penguin, £4.99 The Levels by Peter Benson, Penguin, £3.99 Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabva- la, Penguin, £4.99