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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds, Cape, £8.99 The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty, Arcadia, £11.99 Promised Lands by Jane Rogers, Abacus, £7.99 The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell, Little, Brown, £10.99 The Bad Sister by Emma Tennant, Canon- gate, £7.99 A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle, Vin- tage, £6.99 Flashman and the Tiger by George Mac- Donald Fraser, HarperCollins, £6.99 Sweet Waters by Harold Nicolson, Sickle Moon Books, £9.99 Non-fiction: The Quest for C by Alan Judd, Harper- Collins, £8.99

Voltaire, Goldberg and Others by Milton Shulman, Quartet, £7

Lincoln by Jan Morris, Penguin, £7.99 Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson & Michael Orlando Yaccarino, Pimlico, £12.50 The Rise of Design by Charles Saumarez Smith, Pimlico, £12.50 The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones, Flamingo, £8.99 Berlioz, Volumes I & II by David Cairns, Penguin, £12.99 each London by Roy Porter, Penguin, £9.99 Writing at the Kitchen Table by Artemis Cooper, Penguin, £7.99 Cairo in the War by Artemis Cooper, Pen- guin, £9.99 Laurie Lee by Valerie Grove, Penguin, £8.99 Thackeray by D. J. Taylor, Pimlico, £12.50 The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr by Jonathan Haslam, Verso, £15 Imperial Warriors by Tony Gould, Granta, £8.99 Britain Then and Now by Philip Ziegler, The Francis Frith Collection, £16.99 Burnt Diaries by Emma Tennant, Canon- gate, £6.99 One Foot in Laos by Deryla Murphy, Flamingo, £7.99 The Princely Courts of Europe edited by John Adamson, Seven Dials, £16.99 Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell, Penguin, £7.99 The Daily Telegraph Fifth Book of Obitu- aries edited by Hugh Massingberd, Pan, £6.99 The Spencer Family by Charles Spencer, Penguin, £8.99