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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, Vintage, £6.99 The Tin Can Tree, Celestial Navigation and Morgan's Passing by Anne Tyler, Vintage, 6.99 each Home Thoughts, Cara Massimina and Mimi's Ghost by Tim Parks, Vintage, £6.99 each An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, Phoenix, £6.99 Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo, Paddleless, £6.99 Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, Vintage, £6.99 The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch, Vintage, £7.99 Alms for Oblivion, Volumes I, II and III by Simon Raven, Vintage, £9.99 each Non-fiction: Isaiah Berlin by Michael Ignatieff, Vintage*, £8.99 Arafat by Said K. Aburish, Bloomsbury, £7.99 Arthur Koestler by David Cesarani, Vintage, £8.99 The Day Britain Died by Andrew Marr, Profile, £7.99 Freud's Footnotes by Darian Leader, Faber, £9.99 The Use and Abuse of History by M. I. Fin- ley, Pimlico, £10

Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries by Gyles Brandreth, Phoenix, £7.99

Big Snake by Robert Twigger, Phoenix, £7.99 Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford, Sutton, £5.99 Dirk Bogarde: Rank Outsider by Sheridan Morley, Bloomsbury, £12.99 The Search for Shangri-La by Charles Allen, Abacus, £7.99 Seeds of Change by Henry Hobhouse, Papermac, £12 Insights by Naim Attallah, Quartet, £12.50 Demon Barber by Lynn Barber, Penguin, £8.99 Collected Essays by Graham Greene, Vintage, £7.99 Eddy: The Life of Eddy Sackville-West by Michael De-la-Noy, Arcadia, £12.99 The Korean War by Max Hastings, Pan, £7.99 The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear and The Play of the Eyes by Elias Canetti, Granta, 8.99 each Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times by Robert Dallek, OUP, £12.99 Memoirs, Volume II by the Duc de Saint- Simon, Prion, £10