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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: The History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham, Dent, £8.95 The Second Oldest Profession by Phillip Knightley, Pan, £3.50 Coasting by Jonathan Raban, Picador, £3.95 Four Portraits: Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne and Wilkes by Peter Quennell, Hutch- inson, £5.95 Coups and Cocaine by Anthony Daniels, Century, £5.95

Harold Nicolson: Volume I by James Lees- Milne, Hamish Hamilton, £6.95

Haile Selassie's War by Anthony Mockler, Grafton, £6.95 The Lion and the Honeycomb: The Reli- gious Writings of Tolstoy edited by A.N. Wilson, Collins, £7.95 Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, Faber, £3.95

The Trial of Stephen Ward by Ludovic Kennedy, Gollancz, £3.95

Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy, Unwin, £9.95

A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 and A Century of the Scottish People 1830-1950 by T.C. Smout, Fontana, £6.95 each Love is Blue by Joan Wyndham, Flamingo, £3.95

Another Voice by Auberon Waugh, Fonta- na, £3.95 Early Stages by John Gielgud, Hodder, £7.95

First and Last Loves by John Betjeman, Century Hutchinson, £5.95

Hemingway by Jeffrey Meyers, Paladin, £9.95 The Sweet Science by A.J. .Liebling, Sportspages, £5.95

My Many Years by Arthur Rubinstein, Hamish Hamilton, £7.95

The Beaverbrook I Knew, edited by Logan Gourley, Quartet, £5.95 The Latest Country Houses by John Martin Robinson, Bodley Head, £8.95 The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne, Cape, £9.95 The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes, edited by Max Hastings, OUP, £5.95 Thomas Becket by Frank Barlow, Wein- denfeld, £8.95 The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring, Cassell, £6.95 Sir Walter Scott by John Buchan, Cassell, £6.95

Talleyrand by Duff Cooper, Cassell, £6.95 Johnson and Boswell by Hesketh Pearson, Cassell, £6.95

The Berlin Diaries of Marie ‘Missie' Vas- siltchikov 1940-1945, Methuen, £5.95 The Outlaws of Medieval Legend by Maurice Keen, RKP, £6.95 The Fringes of Power: Volume II by John Colville, Sceptre, £5.95 A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne, Papermac, £8.95 Sound Shadows of the New World by Ved Mehta, Picador, £4.95 The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Andrew Motion, Hogarth, £7.95 The Face of Spain by Gerald Brenan, Penguin, £3.95 Fiction: The News from Ireland by William Trevor, Penguin, £3.95 Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes, Picador, £3.50

0-Zone by Paul Theroux, Penguin, £3.95 The London Embassy by Paul Theroux, Penguin, £2.50 Satyrday by Duncan Fallowell, Paladin, £3.95 Augustus by Allan Massie, Sceptre, £3.95 An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo, Picador, £3.95 The Imperial German Dinner Service by David Hughes, Paladin, £2.95

The Girls by John Bowen, Grafton, £2.50 Innocence by Penelope Fitzgerald, Fla- mingo, £3.50 One is a Wanderer by Francis King, Penguin, £3.95