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A selection of recent paperbacks

Nonfiction: The Making of a Philosopher by Colin McGinn, Scribner, £6.99 Marianne in Chains by Robert Gildea, Pan, £8.99 Captives by Linda Colley, Pimlico, £8.99 Carnival in Romans by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, Phoenix, £12.99 Voices from the Great War by Peter Vansittart, Pimlico, 18.99 John Betjeman: New Fame, New Love by Bevis Hillier, John Murray, £9.99 The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glas by Dannie Abse, Robson, £6.99 Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, Vintage, £10.99 Arresting Times by Eric Hobsbawm, Abacus. £9.99 Reviewery by Christopher Ricks, Penguin, £9.99 Home Truths: A Life Round My Father by Penny Junor, HarperCollins, £7.99 Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley, Imprint Academic, 18.95 The Writer and the World by V. S. Naipaul, Picador, £7.99 A View from the Bed by Jenny Diski, Virago, £8.99 The New Penguin Opera Guide edited by Amanda Holden, Penguin, /20

Fiction:

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Penguin, £6.99 The Grown Ups by Victoria Glendinning, Scribner, £6.99 The Stain in the Snow by Georges Simenon, Orion, £6.99 Hurry on Down by John Wain, Smaller Sky Books, £9.99

Dirt Music by Tim Winton, Picador, £7.99 Marks of Identity and State of Siege by Juan Goytisolo, Serpent's Tail, £7.99, 18.99 The Comic by Brian Glanville, Smaller Sky Books, £9.99

In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Prisoner and the Fugitive, Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, general editor Christopher Prendergast, Penguin, £45 (boxed set) or £8.99 each Poetry: Collected Poems by John Betjeman, compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead, John Murray, £12.99 Max is Missing by Peter Porter. Picador, £7.99