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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The New Confessions by William Boyd, Penguin, £3.99 I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis, Penguin, £2.95 The Return of Hyman Kaplan by Leo Rosten, Penguin, £3.99 The House of Hospitalities by Emma Ten- nant, Penguin, £3.99 The Hearts and Minds of Men by Fay Weldon, Fontana, £3.95 Human Voices and Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald, Flamingo, £3.95 each Collected Short Stories by Ruth Rendell, Arrow, £4.99 The Counterlife by Philip Roth, Penguin, £4.50 Beloved by Toni Morrison, Picador, £3.95 Anthills of the Savannah and The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe, Picador, £3.95, £6.95

The Day of Creation by J. G. Ballard, Grafton, £2.99

Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, Collins, £4.95 Non-fiction: The Life of Kenneth Tynan by Kathleen Tynan, Methuen, £5.95 The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff, Penguin, £3.99 The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel, Hutchinson, £7.95

End of an Era: Letters and Journals of Sir Alan Lascelles 1887-1920 edited by Duff Hart-Davis, Hamish Hamilton, £7.95 The Eagle and the Dove by Vita Sackville-

West, Cardinal, £4.99 The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. Morris, Cardinal, £5.99 Trail of Havoc by Patrick Marnham, Pen- guin, £2.99 Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson by Nicholas Rankin, Fa- ber, £5.95 Tissot by Christopher Wood, Weidenfeld, £10.95 Amyntas: North African Journals by Andre Gide, The Ecco Press, £7.50 Going to Miami by David Rieff, Blooms- bury, £4.95 E. M. Forster by P. N. Furbank, Cardinal, £7.99 August and Rah by Mollie Butler, Weiden- kid, £6.95 Over the High Passes by Christina Noble, Fontana, £3.95 When the Mind Hears by Harlan Lane, Pelican, £6.99 Timebends: A Life by Arthur Miller, Methuen, £5.95 The Female Wits: Women Playwrights of the Restoration by Fidelis Morgan, Virago, £16.95 Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin, Penguin, £3.99 Stalker by John Stalker, Penguin. £3.50 Vladimir's Carrot: Modern Drama and the Modern Imagination by John Peter, Methuen, £6.95 Eat Your Heart Out by James Le Fanu, Papermac, £5.95 The Last Cuckoo: The Very Best Letters to the Times since 1900 edited by Kenneth Gregory, Unwin, £4.50 The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto, Muller, £9.95 C. S. Lewis by William Griffin, Lion, £5.95 Argufying by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden, Hogarth, £15 The Magic Wheel: An Anthology of Fishing Literature edited by David Profumo and Graham Swift, Picador, £5.95 The Evolution of Diplomatic Method by Harold Nicolson, Cassell, £4.95 Nye Bevan by John Campbell, Weidenfeld, £9.95 Passchendaele by Philip Warner, Sidgwick, £8.95

Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford, Weidenfeld, £9.95

Stage Directions by John Gielgud, Hodder, £7.95 The Last Medici by Harold Acton, Cardin- al, £4.99

Out of the Wilderness: Diaries 1963-1967 by Tony Benn, Arrow, £7.99

My Early Years by David Hockney, Thames & Hudson, £12.95

Prisoners of God: The Modern-day Conflict of Arab and Jew by David Smith, Quartet, £6.95