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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Falling, by Colin Thubron, Penguin, £4.99 London Fields, by Martin Amis, Penguin. £4.99 Restoration, by Rose Tremain, Sceptre, £4.99 The Fly in the Ointment, by Alice Thomas Ellis, Penguin, £4.50 The History Man, Rates of Exchange and Eating People is Wrong, by Malcolm Bradbury, Vintage, £4.99 each The Girl at the Lion d'Or, by Sebastian Faulks, Vintage, £4.99 Flesh and The Snowball, by Brigid Brophy, Cardinal, £3.99 each The Fat Man in History, by Peter Carey, Canongate, £4.95 The Pale Companion, by Andrew Motion, Penguin, £4.99 The Good Terrorist, by Doris Lessing, Paladin, £5.99 Magnus Merriman, by Eric Linklater, Canongate, £4.95

Charley is My Darling, and A Fearful Joy,

by Joyce Cary, Cardinal, £4.99 each The Stories of John Cheever, Vintage.

£9.99 Non-Fiction: In Xanadu, by William Dalrymple. Flamingo, £4.99 Bernard Shaw, by Michael Holroyd. Penguin, £7.99 Literary Daughters, by Maggie Lane, Hale, £6.95 Macmillan, by Alistair Horne, Papermac, £11.99 The Time of My Life, by Joyce Grenfell, Coronet, £4.99 Unlimited Challenge, by Garry Kasparov, with Donald Trelford, Fontana, £4.99 The Brideshead Generation, by Humphrey Carpenter, Faber, £8.99 Authors, by Karl Miller, OUP, £6.99 My Sister and Myself: The Diaries of J. R. Ackerley, edited by Francis King, OUP, £5.99 Home Life, Book Four, by Alice Thomas Ellis, Flamingo, £3.99 The Godwins and the Shelleys, by William St Clair, Faber, £8.99 The Spanish Labyrinth, by Gerald Brennan, Canto, £6.95 Lawrence of Arabia, by Jeremy Wilson. Minerva, £9.99 The Case for Workers' Co-ops, by Robert Oakeshott, Macmillan, £14.99 The New Journalism, by Tom Wolfe, Picador, £5.99 Total Poker, by David Spanier, Andre Deutsch, £7.99