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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction The Emperor of Ice-cream by Brian Moore, Paladin, £3.95 In the Labyrinth by John David Morley, Abacus, £3.99 Charade by John Mortimer, Penguin, £2.50 The Shrapnel Academy by Fay Weldon, Coronet, £2.50 The Hottentot Room by Christopher Hope, Abacus, £3.99 Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist and More from Martha by Jill Tweedie, Pavan- ne, £3.95 Pride by William Wharton, Penguin, £3.95 Mating Birds by Lewis Nkosi, Flamingo, £3.50 Soft City by Jonathan Raban, Collins Harvill, £4.95 Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Fa- ber, £3.95 Albany Park by Patrice Chaplin, Sceptre, £3.95 The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia High- smith, Penguin, £2.95 Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell, Pica- dor, £5.95 The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov, Picador, £2.95 The Leopard (with A Memory and two Stories) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedu- sa, Collins Harvill, £4.95 This Real Night by Rebecca West, Virago, £3.95 One of Ours by Willa Cather, Virago, £4.95 Pack of Cards by Penelope Lively, Pen- guin, £4.50 Only Yesterday by Julian Gloag, Paladin, £3.50 Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet, Paladin, £3.95 The Stories of Heinrich Boll translated by Leila Vennewitz, Abacus, £5.99 Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Brad- bury, Grafton, £2.95 Rat Man of Paris by Paul West, Paladin, £3.50 Non fiction Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Penguin, £3.95 After a Funeral by Diana Athill, Hamish Hamilton, £5.95 Leaves of the Tulip Tree, by Juliette Huxley, OUP, £4.95 Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscins- ki, Picador, £3.50 Acastos by Iris Murdoch, Penguin, £2.95 The Originals: Who's Really Who in Fic- tion by Amos Oz, Sphere, £5.95 Character Parts by John Mortimer, Pen- guin, £2.95 Blindfold Games by Alan Ross, Collins Harvill, £5.95 To the Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse, Sceptre, £4.95 England and the Middle East by Elie Kedourie, Mansell, £15 What is History? by E.H. Carr, Pelican, £3.95 Criticism by Hans Keller, Faber, £4.95 Against All Hope, the Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares, Coronet, £3.95 The Waiting Land by Deryla Murphy, Century Hutchinson, £4.95 The Proud Tower and August 1914 by Barbara Tuchman, Papermac, £9.95 and £8.95 A Life in the Movies by Michael Powell, Methuen, £7.95 Montgomery in Europe by Richard Lamb, Buchan & Enright, £6.95 The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak trans- lated by Jennifer Bradshaw, Quartet, £6.95 The Red and the Blue by Andrew Sinclair, Coronet, £2.50 Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard, Pan, £3.50 Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh, Fontana, £3.95 Moments of Reprieve by Primo Levi, Aba- cus, £3.50 Let Us Niow Praise Famous Men by James Agee, Picador, £5.95 Caitlin: A Warring Absence by Caitlin Thomas and George Tremlet, Pavanne, £3.95 The Early Writings of Alan Watts edited by John Snelling and Dennis T. Sibley, Cen- tury, £6.95 Reflections in a Writer's Eye by Angus Wilson, Paladin, £3.95 Envy and Gratitude by Melanie Klein, Virago, £8.95 The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian Lyttelton, Weiden- feld, £12.95 Samuel Johnson by John Wain, Papermac, £9.95 Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell, Paladin, £7.95 The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews by Rebecca West, Virago, £6.95 The Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett edited by V.E. Stack, Century, £5.95 MY 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fis- cher, Faber, £4.95 The Land that Lost its Heroes: Argentina, the Falklands and Alfonsin by Jimmy Burns, Bloomsbury, £5.95 Falklands: The Secret Plot by Cardoso, Kirschbaum and van der Kooy, Preston, £7.50 Poetry Collected Poems by Charles Tomlinson, OUP, £6.95 Portraits and Elegies by Gertrude Schnack- enberg, Hutchinson, £6.95 Collected Poems 1947-1980 by Allen Gins- berg, Penguin, £9.95