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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, Penguin, £5.99 The High Flyer by Nicholas Shakespeare, Picador, £6.99 The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd, Penguin, £5.99 The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald, Flamingo, £5.99 Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Penguin, £5.99 The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor, Faber, £8.99 Sandspit Crossing by Noel Virtue, Peter Owen, £9.95 The Final Martyrs by Shusaku Endo, Sceptre, £5.99 The Oxford Book of Short Stories edited by V. S. Pritchett, OUP, £7.99 Short Stories and the Unbearable Bassing- ton by Saki, OUP World Classics, £4.99 The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories edited by William Trevor, OUP, £7.99 Collected Stories by Beryl Bainbridge, Penguin, £6.99

My Idea of Fun by Will Self, Penguin, £5.99 Too Far from Home by Paul Bowles, Peter Owen, £8.95 Non-fiction: The Inner Game by Dominic Lawson, Pan, £5.99 The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by

Charlotte Mosley, Sceptre, £8.99 Haut-Brion by Asa Briggs, Faber, £9.99 Marshal Petain by Richard Griffiths, Constable, £12.95 The Codebreakers edited by F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, OUP, £7.99

In Europe's Name by Timothy Garton Ash, Vintage, £9.99 Scramble for Africa by Anthony Nutting, Constable, £10.95 The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy, Yale, £10.95

Shylock by John Gross, Vintage, £6.99 Antoine de St Exupery by Paul Webster, Papermac, £10.99 On Foot to the Golden Horn by Jason Goodwin, Vintage, £6.99

The Baltic Revolution by Anatol Lieven, Yale, £9.95 The Media Trilogy by Robert Harris, Faber, £9.99

Gavin Maxwell by Douglas Botting, HarperCollins, £8.99 Hanging On and Other People by Frances Partridge, Flamingo, £6.99 and £7.99 Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Stories by Martin Amis, Penguin, £6.99

Yesterday Came Suddenly by Francis King, Constable, £9.95

After the War by D. J. Taylor, Flamingo, £6.99 Louis XVI by John Hardman, Yale, £9.95 The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter, Faber, £8.99 Stand Before Your God by Paul Watkins, Faber, £6.99 Dickens the Novelist by F. R. and Q. D. Leavis, Penguin, £8.99

D.H. Lawrence: Novelist by F. R. Leavis, Penguin, £8.99 Mind Over Matter by Ranulph Fiennes, Mandarin, £5.99 Politicians and the Slump by Robert Skidelsky, Papermac, £12.99 Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell edited by Regina Marler, Bloomsbury, £12.99 Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding, Phoenix, £14.99 Asquith by Roy Jenkins, Papermac, £10.99 Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat, Allison & Busby, £8.99

The Way to Xanadu, by Caroline Alexan- der, Phoenix, £5.99

Fitzroy Maclean by Frank Mclynn, John Murray, £13.99 Genet by Edmund White, Picador, £9.99