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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Veronica or the Two Nations by David Caute, Paladin, £4.99 Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, Coronet, £4.50 Pig and Pepper by David Footman, Robin Clark, £4.95 The Trick of It by Michael Frayn, Pen- guin, £4.99 Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson, Vintage, £3.99 Lantern Lecture by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber, £3.99 Traveller by Richard Adams, Penguin, £3.99 Landscape of Lies by Peter Watson, Head- line, £3.99 A Particular Place by Mary Hocking, Virago, £4.99 The Arrowing of the Cane by John Conyngham, Bloomsbury, £4.99 The English Teacher and The Financial Expert by R. K. Narayan, Mandarin, £3.99 each The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor, Penguin, £4.99 Deceits of Time by Isabel Colegate, Pen- guin, £4.99 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber, £3.99 Have the Men Had Enough? by Margaret Forster, Penguin, £4.99 Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford, Penguin, £4.99 Moon Palace by Paul Auster, Faber, £3.99 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, Picador, £6.99

Passing On by Penelope Lively, Penguin, £4.99 The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Alice Thomas Ellis, Penguin, £4.50

The Russia House by John Le Carre, Coronet, £4.50 Non-Fiction: Daddy, We Hardly Knew You by Ger- maine Greer, Penguin, £4.99 Danube by Claudio Magris, Collins Har- vill, £7.95 Dubcek by William Shawcross, Hogarth, £9.99 King Charles II by Antonia Fraser, Man- darin, £6.99 Bernard Shaw, Volume I by Michael Holroyd, Penguin, £6.99 The Last Leopard by David Gilmour, Collins Harvill, £7.95 Circular Evidence by Pat Delgardo and Colin Andrews, Bloomsbury, £9.99 Lord Randolph Churchill by R. F. Foster, OUP, £6.95 Huxley in Hollywood by David King Dun- away, Bloomsbury, £9.99 Our Grandmothers' Drums by Mark Hud- son, Minerva, £4.99 The Longest War by Dilip Hiro, Paladin, £6.99 Prepared for the Worst by Christopher Hitchens, Hogarth, £9.99

Osbert: A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster by Richard Boston, Fontana, £7.99

Articles of War: The Spectator Book of World War II edited by Philip Marsden-Smedley and Fiona Glass, Paladin, £6.99 Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington by Gretchen Gerzina, OUP, £6.95 Carrington: Letters and Extracts from Her Journals edited by David Garnett, OUP, £7.95 Despatches from the Barricades by John Simpson, Hutchinson, £10.99 `Murder will Out': The Detective in Fic- tion by T. J. Binyon, OUP, £5.95 A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov, Collins Harvill, £5.95 Great True Spy Stories edited by Allen Dulles, Robson, £8.99 How to Grow Old Disgracefully by Her- mione Gingold, Mandarin, £3.99