28 NOVEMBER 1992, Page 45

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, Mandarin, £4.99 Blue River by Ethan Canin, Picador, £5.99 Birchwood by John Banville, Minerva, £4.99 Lust by Elfriede Jelinek, Serpent's Tail, £8.99 Coup de Grace by Margaret Yourcenar, Harvill, £6.99 The Dwarfs by Harold Pinter, Faber, £5.99 Bloody Margaret by Mark Lawson, Picador, £5.99 Of Love and Asthma by Ferdinand Mount, Mandarin, £5.99 Second Best by David Cook, Faber, £4.99 The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard, Grafton, £4.99 The Ant Colony by Francis King, Flamingo, £5.99 Brownbread and War by Roddy Doyle, Secker, £6.99 Because it is Bitter and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates, Picador, £6.99 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, Secker, £9.99 Dunster by John Mortimer, Viking, £8.99 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Abacus, £9.99 Non-fiction: Three Letters from the Andes by Patrick Leigh Fermor, Penguin, £4.99 August and Rab by Mollie Butler, Robin Clark, £6.95 The Intellectuals and the Masses by John Carey, Faber, £5.99 Alice James by Jean Strouse, Harper- Collins, £9.99 Churchill's Generals edited by John Keegan, Warner Books £6.99 The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, Canto, £6.95 Orwell by Michael Shelden, Minerva, £7.99 All Round View by Imran Khan, Mandarin, £4.99 Truth to Tell by Ludovic Kennedy, Black Swan, £7.99 Prisoner of Baghdad by Daphne Parish, Chapmas, £8.99 The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters, Minerva, £7.99 Notes on a Cowardly Lion by John Lahr, Bloomsbury, £13.99 Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim, Canto, £6.95 The Sicilian Vespers by Steven Runciman, Canto, £7.95 All in a Life by Garret Fitzgerald, Papermac, £14.99 The Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton, Simon & Schuster, £7.99 P.G. Wodehouse: The Authorised Biogra- phy by Frances Donaldson, Allison & Busby, £11.99 In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young, Penguin, £5.99 Magazine Work by Diane Arbus, Blooms- bury, £16.99 Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood, Minerva, £7.99 Fascinating Rhythm by Deena Rosenberg, Lime Tree, £14.99 The Modern Movement edited by John Gross, Harvill, £9.99 Poetry: A Hundred Movements with a Fan by Paul Claudel, translated by Andrew Harvey and Iain Watson, Quartet, £9.95