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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: The Western Canon by Harold Bloom, Papermac, £10 Mrs Jordan's Profession, by Claire Toma- lin, Penguin, £8.99 Balzac by Graham Robb, Papermac, £10 An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin, Minerva, £7.99 The Lamberts by Andrew Motion, Faber, £9.99 The First World War by Martin Gilbert, HarperCollins, £9.99 From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and their Tellers by Marina Warner, Vintage, £10.99 Richard Ingrams by Harry Thompson, Mandarin, £6.99 Pandaemonium by Humphrey Jennings, Papermac, £10 The World Economy Since the Wars by John Kenneth Galbraith, Mandarin, £7.99 To Noto and One Hot Summer in St Petersburg by Duncan FalloWell, Vintage, £6.99 each Not Ordinary Men by John Colvin, Pen & Sword, £9.95 Wages of Guilt by Ian Buruma, Vintage, £8.99 Beyond the Chindwin by Bernard Fergus- son, Pen & Sword, £9.95 The Philby Files by Genrikh Borovik, Warner, £9.99 The Autobiography of Margot Asquith edited by Mark Bonham Carter, Weiden- feld, £12.99 The Prince of Wales by Jonathan Dimble- by, Warner, £7.50 Easy Money: Inside the Gambler's Mind by David Spanier, Oldcastle, £6.99 Fear of Fifty by Erica Jong, Vintage, £6.99 Fiction: A Man of Mystery and Other Stories by Shiva Naipaul, Penguin, £6.99 Umbrella by Ferdinand Mount, Minerva, £5.99 The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, Picador, £6.99 Touch and Go by Elizabeth Berridge, Black Swan, £5.99 Evangelista's Fan by Rose Tremain, Min- erva, £5.99 A Son of the Circus by John Irving, Black Swan, £7.99 The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey, Faber, £5.99 A Different Sea by Claudio Magris, Harvill, £7.99 Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, Angel Classics, £8.95