16 MAY 1987, Page 36

A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Cities on a Hill by Frances Fitzgerald, Picador, £4.50 The Journals of Denton Welch edited by Michael De-la-Noy, Penguin, £4.95 Edwin Muir: An Autobiography, Hogarth, £5.95 The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham Smith, Hamish Hamilton, £5.95 Forests of Britain by Thomas Hinde, Aba- cus, £4.95 The Essential G. K. Chesterton edited by P. J. Kavanagh, OUP, £5.95 Flowers of Greece and the Balkans, A Field Guide by Oleg Polunin, OUP, £12.95 Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley, Everyman, £3.95 Writing Against: A Biography of Sartre by Ronald Hayman, W&N, £8.95 Home Life by Alice Thomas Ellis, Fla- mingo, £2.95 Firing Line by Richard Holmes, Penguin, £4.95 Conundrum by Jan Morris, Penguin, £2.95 Confessions of an Optimist by Woodrow Wyatt, Collins, £6.95 Conan Doyle by Hesketh Pearson, Unwin, £6.95 Bernard Shaw by Hesketh Pearson, Un- win, £8.95 Hitler by Joachim C. Fest, W&N, £8.95 Cardigan: The Hero of Balaclava by Donald Thomas, RKP, £8.95 Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham, Fla- mingo, £2.95 Rebellion or Revolution by G. E. Aylmer, OUP, £4.95 A Superficial Journey through Tokyo and Peking by Peter Quennell, OUP, £4.95 Who's Who in Military History by John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft, Century Hutchinson, £12.95 Loneliness: The Wilder Scene by Richard Carr-Gomm, Churchman Publishing Ltd, £4.95.

Fiction:

The Marionette by Edwin Muir, Hogarth, £4.95 Mum and Mr Armitage by Beryl Bain- bridge, Flamingo, £2.95 Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith, Penguin, £2.95 Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter, Faber, £2.95 Waterloo, Waterloo by Teresa Waugh, Penguin, £2.95 Private Papers by Margaret Forster, Pen- guin, £3.95 The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence, Virago, £3.95 A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence, Virago, £3.95 An Error of Judgement by Pamela Hans- ford Johnson, OUP, £3.95 Facial Justice by L. P. Hartley, OUP, £3.95 High Table by Joanna Cannan, OUP, £3.95 Casino for Sale by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, Hogarth, £4.95 A Change of Skin by Carlos Fuentes, Deutsch, £6.95