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Non-fiction: Soundings by Anita Brookner, Harvill, £9.99 A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich, Penguin, £14.99 Kosovo by Noel Malcolm, Papermac, £10 Over Here by Raymond Seitz, Phoenix, £7.99 False Dawn by John Gray, Granta, £7.99 A Later Beginner by Priscilla Napier, Clocktower Paperbacks, £9.99 Africa by John Reader, Penguin, £14.99 Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn edited by Guy de la Bedoyere, Boydell & Brewer, £16.99 A Brutal Friendship by Said K. Aburish, Indigo, £8.99 Drinle A Social History by Andrew Barr, Pimlico, £12.50 The Conservative Party from Peel to Major by Robert Blake, Arrow, £10 John Betjeman: Coming Home. An Anthology of Prose selected by Candida Lycett Green, Vintage, £8.99 Classics in Translation by Peter Jones, Duckworth, £10.95 W. B. Yeats by R. F. Foster, OUP, £15 A Golden Basin Full of Scorpions by Con Coughlin, Warner, £7.99 Europe: A Cultural History by Peter Riet- bergen, Routledge, £16.99 The Oxford Companion to the Mind edit- ed by Richard L. Gregory, OUP, £15.99 Modern British Jewry by Geoffrey Alder- man, OUP, £17.99 Faking It: The Sentimentalisation of Mod- em Society edited by Digby Anderson and Peter Mullen, Penguin, £7.99 Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters edited by John Jolliffe, Clocktower Paperbacks, £9.99 The Brontës: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker, Viking, £9.99 F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edit- ed by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Penguin, £12.99 The Real Hornblower: The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon GCB by Bryan Perrett, Arms and Armour, £9.99 The Guardian Year '98 edited by John Ezard, 4th Estate, £12.99 Christian Socialism: Scott Holland to Tony Blair by Alan Wilkinson, SCM Press, £14.95 Music at Night and Other Essays by Aldous Huxley, Flamingo, £6.99 Confessions of a Wine Lover by Jancis Robinson, £7.99 Fine Wine Guide by Oz Clark and Steven Spurrier, Little, Brown, £17.99 Fiction: A Hard Time to be a Father by Fay Weldon, Flamingo, £6.99 A Certain Justice by P. D. James, Penguin, £5.99 The Hunters by James Salter, Harvill, £10.99 Arkansas by David Leavitt, Abacus, £6.99 101b Penalty by Dick Francis, Pan, £5.99 The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty with an introduction by Hermione Lee, Virago, £10.99 The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction edited by Carolyn Choa and David Su Li-Qun, Picador, £8.99