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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories by Kingsley Amis, Penguin, £5.99 The Rationalist by Warwick Collins, Minerva, £5.99 Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, Picador, £6.99 The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky, Faber, £6,99 On the Contrary by Andre Brink, Minerva, £5.99 Prisoner of Dunes by Isabelle Eberhardt, Peter Owen, £12.50 Araminta's Wedding by Jilly Cooper, Mandarin, £7.99 Masai Dreaming by Justin Cartwright, Picador, £5.99 Mrs De Winter by Susan Hill, Mandarin, £5.99 The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories edited by Vincent O'Sullivan, OUP, £7.99 The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories edited by Tobias Wolff, Picador, £7.99 Non-fiction: Lost in Translation and Exit into History, by Eva Hoffman, Minerva, £6.99 each A Very Private Eye by Barbara Pym, Papermac, £12.99 Amarylis Fleming by Fergus Fleming, Methuen, £9.99 Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley, Seeker, £18.99 For the Sake of Argument by Christopher Hitchens, Verso, £11.95 Tchaikovsky by Alexander Poznansky, Methuen, £14.99 Children First by Penelope Leach, Penguin, £6.99 The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth Brandon, Mandarin, £5.99 David Frost: An HarperCollins, £7.99 Toujours Cricklewood by Alan Coren, Robson, £7.99 The Oxford Book of Exploration by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, OUP, £7.99 German Romantic Painting by William Vaughan, Yale, £12.95 Life and How to Survive It by Robin Skynner and John Cleese, Mandarin, £5.99 Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by David Fraser, HarperCollins, £9.99 The Ukimwi Road by Deryla Murphy, Flamingo, £6.99 Collision of Empires, by A. D. Harvey, Phoenix, £14.99 Autobiography,