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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction:

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, Phoenix, £8.99, pp. 1474 Net of Jewels by Ellen Gilchrist, Faber, £5.99 Impossible Vacation by Spalding Gray, Picador, £5.99 Malefice by Leslie Wilson, Picador, £4.99 Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates, Picador, £5.99 Shadow Play by Frances Fyfield, Corgi, £4.99 V. I. Warshawsld: Indemnity One, Dead- lock and Killing Orders, by Sara Paretsky, Penguin, £8.99 Time and the Hunter by Italo Calvino, Picador, £4.99 Pompey by Jonathan Meades, Vintage, £5.99

Nonfiction:

The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor by A. N. Wilson, Mandarin, £5.99 Against the Stranger: Lives in the Occupied Territories by Janine di Giovanni, Penguin, £6.99 Sentimental Journeys by Joan Didion, Flamingo, £6.99 Xanthippic Dialogues by Roger Scruton, Sinclair-Stevenson, £6.99 Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow, Faber, £10.99 Half Time Whistle by Frank Keating, Warner, £6.99 Wilfred Owen: The War Poems edited by Jon Stallworthy, Chatto, £4.99 The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, introduced by Anita Desai, Virago, £7.99 Henry James by Fred Kaplan, Sceptre, £9.99 Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said, Vintage, £8.99 Battle at Sea by John Keegan, Pimlico, £10 Nabokov: The Russian Years and The American Years, by Brian Boyd, Vintage, £9.99 each Britons by Linda Colley, Pimlico, £10 The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon by Daniel Farson, Vintage, £6.99 Diaries by Alan Clark, Pheonix, £6.99 Delacroix: A Life by Timothy Wilson- Smith, Constable, £10.95 Colour Your Garden by Mary Keen, Conran Octopus, £9.99 Gorky by Henri Troyat, Allison & Busby, £8.99