19 OCTOBER 1996, Page 54

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Journey to Ithaca by Anita Desai, Minerva, £6.99 Primary Colors by Anonymous, Vintage, £6.99 Difficulties of a Bridegroom by Ted Hugh- es, Faber, £6.99 The Double Tongue by William Golding, Faber, £5.99 The Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco, Minerva, £6.99

A Patriot in Berlin by Piers Paul Read, Pheonix, £5.99 Non-fiction: Palimpsest by Gore Vidal, Abacus, £9.99 Under the Blazing Light by Amos Oz, Canto, £6.95

Warpaths by John Keegan, Pimlico, £9.99 Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wildwood by Alison Prince, Allison & Busby, £10.99 The Missing by Andrew O'Hagan, Picador, £5.99

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett, Penguin, £9.99 On Being Jewish by Julia Neuberger, Man- darin, £6.99 Brian Johnston by Tim Heald, Mandarin, £5.99 Terence Rattigan by Geoffrey Wansell, Fourth Estate, £8.99 Asking Questions by Naim Attallah, Quar- tet, £12.50

The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft, Penguin, £8.99

The Faber Book of Pop edited by Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage, Faber, £14.99 Writing and Being by Nadine Gordimer, Harvard, £7.50 Wystan and Chester by Thekla Clark, Faber, £8.99 Saint-Elaipery by Stacy Schiff, Pimlico, £12.50 Secret Society by Emma Nicholson, Indigo, £7.99 Anatomy of Decline by Peter Jenkins, Indi- go, £8.99

You Couldn't Make it Up by Richard Littlejohn, Mandarin, £5.99 Michael Redgrave, My Father by Corin Redgrave, Fourth Estate, £6.99 The Hanging Tree by V. A. C. Gatrell, OUP, £10.99

Wild Olives: Life in Majorca with Robert Graves by William Graves, Pimlico, £10 The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution by Peter Hennessy, Indigo, £7.99

Theatrical Anecdotes by Ned Sherrin, Virgin, £7.99