19 APRIL 1997, Page 40

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester, Picador, £5.99 Last Orders by Graham Swift, Picador, £5.99

Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard by Timothy Mo, Paddleless, £5.99

Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve by Francis King, Allison & Busby, £8.99 Another Kind of Cinderella by Angela Huth, Abacus, £6.99 Perfect Happiness by Rachel Billington, Sceptre, £6.99 Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher, Penguin, £6.99 Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi, Faber, £8.99 Down by the River by Edna O'Brien, Phoenix, £5.99 The Taste of a Man by Slavenka Drakulic, Abacus, £9.99 Non-fiction: The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone, Pimlico, £12

The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen

Caroline by Flora Fraser, Papermac, £10 The Quest for God by Paul Johnson, Phoenix, £6.99 Turning the Tide by Leo McKinstry, Michael Joseph, £12.99 Odd Man Out by Martyn Harris, Pavilion, £12.99 Bertrand Russell by Ray Monk, Vintage, £9.99 The Austrians by Gordon Brook-Shepherd, HarperCollins, £8.99 Not Entitled by Frank Kermode, Flamingo, £6.99 On Kissing by Adrianne Blue, Indigo, £6.99 Willa Cather by Hermione Lee, Virago, £8.99 An Italian Education by Tim Parks, Miner- va, £6.99 Before the Oil Ran Out by Ian Jack, Vin- tage, £7.99 How to be a Minister by Gerald Kaufman, Faber, £8.99 Inside Westminster by John Biffen, Deutsch, £9.99 Georgiana by Brian Masters, Allison & Busby, £10.99 Learn Latin by Peter Jones, Duckworth, £7.95 Below the Parapet by Carol Thatcher, HarperCollins, £6.99 Wagner by Michael Tanner, Flamingo, £6.99 Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus by Anthony Storr, HarperCollins, £6.99 Trotsky by Dmitri Volkogonov, Harper- Collins, £12.99 You'll Get Over It by Virginia Ironside, Penguin, £6.99 A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel, Flamingo, £9.99 The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser, Weidenfeld, £12.99