19 MARCH 1994, Page 37

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Among the Dead by Michael Tolkin, Faber, £5.99 The Fabulous Englishman by Robert McCrum, Picador, £5.99 The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, Picador, £5.99 Shared Lives by Lyndall Gordon, Vintage, £6.99 The Music of Chance by Paul Auster, Faber, £4.99 Mrs Shakespeare by Robert Nye, Sceptre, £5.99 Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, Sceptre, £5.99 The Playboy Book of Short Stories edited by Alice K. Turner, 4th Estate, £12.99 Non-fiction: Death Plus Ten Years by Roger Cooper, HarperCollins, £7.99 Robert Louis Stevenson by Frank McLynn, Pimlico, £10 Ackerley by Peter Parker, Constable, £12.95 On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips, Faber, £6.99

Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God by Jonah Blank, Touchstone, £6.99

The World the Railways Made by Nicholas Faith, Pimlico, £12.50 A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by Donald Prater, Clarendon, £9.95 Ribbentrop by Michael Bloch, Bantam, £9.99 Song from the Forest by Louis Sarno, Corgi, £6.99 Tennyson by Peter Levi, Papermac, £12.99 Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy and Jill Morrell, Corgi, £5.99 The Language of Genes by Steve Jones, Flamingo, £6.99 Britannia's Daughters by Joanna Trollope, Pimlico, £9 The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke, Yale, £9.95 The Foul and the Fragrant by Alain Corbin, Picador, £6.99 The Last Elephant by Jeremy Gavron, Flamingo, £6.99 On Murder by Brian Masters, Coronet, £5.99 The Germans by Alan Watson, Mandarin, £5.99 A Short History of England by G.K. Chesterton, Fisher, £6 Poetry: Give Me Your Hand by Paul Durcan, Macmillan, £9.99