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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Bad News by Edward St Aubyn, Minerva, £5.99 Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington, Minerva, £5.99 Dr Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath, Viking, £8.99 The Illustrious House of Ramires by Eca

de Queiroz, Quartet, £7.95

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh, Seeker, £8.99 My House is on Fire by Ariel Dorfman, Abacus, £5.99 Cutting Timber by Thomas Bernhard, Vintage, £4.99 The God-Fearer by Dan Jacobson, Sceptre, £5.99 Group Portrait with a Lady and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll, Minerva, £6.99 and £4.99 Days of Anger and The Weeping Woman on the Streets of Prague by Sylvie Germain, Dedalus, £8.99 and £6.99 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, Minerva, £5.99 Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Abacus, £7.99 South Sea Tales and Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham, Mandarin, £4.99 each We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Penguin, £5.99 How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Penguin, £5.99 Non-fiction: The Faber Book of Church and Clergy, edited by A.N. Wilson, Faber, £9.99 Dali by Meredith Etherington-Smith, Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99 Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite, Faber, £12.99 Moving Pictures by Budd Schulberg, Allison & Busby, £8.99 Mind and the Music by Anthony Storr, HarperCollins, £6.99 Bertrand Russell by Caroline Moorehead, Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99 The Unnatural Nature of Science by Lewis Wolpert, Faber, £6.99 Edith Wharton by R.W.B. Lewis, Vintage, £8.99 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Canongate, £9.99 Waterhouse on Newspaper Style by Keith Waterhouse, Penguin, £5.99 The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters, Coronet, £5.99 The Italics are Mine by Nina Berberova, Vintage, £7.99 The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir, Pimlico, £9 From Manet to Manhattan by Peter Watson, Vintage, 9.99 If You Want My Opinion by Bernard Levin, Sceptre, £6.99 The Russians in Israel by Naomi Shep- herd, Simon & Schuster, £9.99 John Nash: The Delighted Eye by Allen Freer, Scolar, £14.95 Hermit of Peking by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Eland, £9.99 J. F. K: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton, £9.99 An Only Child by Frank O'Connor, Black- staff, £6.95 Mozart and the Enlightenment by Nicholas Till, Faber, £14.99 The Schubert Song Companion by John Reed, Faber, £22.50 Gertrude Bell by H.V.F. Winstone, Constable, £12.95 The Life and Times of the English Language by Robert Clairborne, Blooms- bury, £9.99 The Robinson Book of Exploration edited by John Keay, Robinson, £7.99 Traveller's Literary Companion to South and Central America by James Wilson, In Print Publishing, £13.95 Brewer's Book of Myth and Legend edited by J.C. Cooper, Helicon, £7.99 A Dictionary of Twentieth Century World Biography edited by Asa Briggs, OUP, £7.99