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Recent paperbacks

Fiction Penguin have issued six books by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Manor (£1.25), A Friend of Kafka {95p), The Estate (£1.25), Enemies (95p), A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (95p), The Seance and Other Stories (95p) and The Slave (95p). Picador_ have issued The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil in three volumes, £1.75 each.

Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys (Picador £1.95) Inside Mr Enderby and Enderby Outside Anthony Burgess (Penguin 90p and 95p) And Where Were You, Adam? by Heinrich Boll (Penguin 80p) The Tragic Muse by Henry James (Penguin Modern Classics £1.50) The Egoist by George Meredith (Penguin English Library £1.50) Five novels by Piers Paul Read from Pan: Game in Heaven with Tussy Mark (80p), The Junkers (80p), The Professor's Daughter (90p ), Monk Dawson (80p), and Polonaise (95p) Meanwhile by Max Handley (Picador £1.50) Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan (Picador £1) Falstaff by Robert Nye (Sphere £1.50) The Sun's Net by George Mackay Brown (Quartet £1.25) After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Penguin 95p) Non-fiction The Best of Betieman (Penguin 95p; also In hardback, John Murray £5) Forewords and Afterwords by W.H. Auden (Faber £3.95) Ruling Passions by Tom Driberg (Quartet £1.95) Cicero's Letters To His Friends (Penguin 2 vols £2.25 each) Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture by R. W. Brunskill (Faber £2.95) The Penguin Dictionary of ,Surnames (£1.95, also in hardback Allen Lane £6.25) Capital vol 2 by Karl Marx (Penguin £2.95) Joe Grimaldi by Richard Findlater (Cambridge £4.95, also hardback £15) The Warlords by A.J.P. Taylor (Penguin £1.50) The Country Railway by David St John Thomas (Penguin £1.50) Patrick Pearse: the Triumph of Failure by Ruth Dudley Edwards (Faber £3.25) Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (Puffin 70p) Wodehouse at Work to the End by Richard Usbome (Penguin £1.25) Farm Your Garden by Joanna Smith (Penguin £1 ) Memoirs by Pablo Neruda (Penguin £1.50)