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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Summer Meditations by Vaclav Havel, Faber, £6.99 A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846 by Alethea Hayter, Robin Clark, £6.95 The People of Providence and Russian Voices by Tony Parker, Picador, £6.99 each The Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda by Charles Maclean, Canongate, £5.95 Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare, Penguin, £10.99 Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? by Edward Behr, Penguin, £5.99 Nothing to Declare: Prison Memoirs by Taki, Penguin, £5.99 Mae West by Maurice Leonard, Fontana, £5.99 Recollections and Reflections by Bruno Bettelheim, Penguin, £6.99 Media Law by Geoffrey Robertson and Andrew Nicol, Penguin, £25 Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederic Spotts, Bloomsbury, £14.99 Mikhail Bulgakov: Manuscripts Don't Burn: A Life in Diaries and Letters compiled by J.A.E. Curtis, HarperCollins, €8.99 The Bloomsbury Guide to English Litera- ture edited by Marion Wynne-Davies, Bloomsbury, £12.99 Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna, Rider Books, £9.99 The Commanders by Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, £9.99 The Portuguese by Marion Kaplan, Penguin, £7.99 Bob Boothby by Robert Rhodes James, Headline, £7.99 Les Anglais by Philippe Daudy, Headline, £7.99 The Holy Fox: A Life of Lord Halifax by Andrew Roberts, Macmillan, £12.99 Jean Rhys by Carole Angier, Penguin, £9.99 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia, Penguin, £12.99 Oxford Observed by Peter Snow, John Murray, £11.95 The Virgin Queen by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, £6.99 The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue by Hubert Butler, Penguin, £7.99 You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again: Hollywood, The Uncut Version by Julia Phillips, Mandarin, £4.99 Fiction: Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk, Minerva, £5.99 Letters from Constance by Mary Hocking, Virago, £5.99 Family Money by Nina Bawden, Virago, £5.99 Where Are the Snows by Maggie Gee, Abacus, £5.99 The Indoor Boy by Anthony Sher, Penguin, £4.99 Regeneration by Pat Barker, Penguin, £5.99 My Life Closed Twice by Nigel Williams, Faber, £4.99 The Saddest Pleasure by Moritz Thomsen, Sumach Press, £5.99 Anna Soror by Marguerite Yourcenar, Harvill;, £7.99 City of the Mind by Penelope Lively, Penguin, £5.99 The Gorse Trilogy by Patrick Hamilton, Penguin, £7.99 Private Angelo by Eric Linklater, Canon- gate, £5.95 Dead Certainties by Simon Schama, Granta, Penguin, £7.99 Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope, OUP, £6.99 Poetry: Neck-Verse by L.A. Fanthorpe, Peterloo Poets, £6.95 Bleeding Hart Yard by William Scammell, Peterloo, £6.95