4 JANUARY 1997, Page 37

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Drowning Room by Michael Pye, Granta, £6.99 Goldengrove Unleaving by Jill Paton Walsh, Black Swan, £6.99 A Child Possessed by R. C. Hutchinson, Allison & Busby, £8.99 The Music Stories by James Hamilton- Paterson, Vintage, £5.99 One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess, Vintage, £5.99 English Settlement by D. J. Taylor, Vin- tage, £6.99 The Little Book and The Pork Butcher by David Hughes, Vintage, £5.99 each Non-fiction: The Daily Telegraph Book of Obituaries: A Celebration of Eccentric Lives edited by Hugh Massingberd, Pan, £6.99 Changing Enemies by Noel Annan, HarperCollins, £6.99 A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Heenan on the Liturgical Changes edited by Scott M. P. Reid, The Saint Austin Press, £3.95 No End of a Lesson: The Story of Suez by Anthony Nutting, Constable, £9.95 Great Parliamentary Scandals by Matthew Parris, Robson, £10.99 Dear Docile: The Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove, Pimlico, £10 The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker, Vintage, £7.99 Long Sunset by Anthony Montague Browne, Indigo, £10.99 Misogynies by Joan Smith, Vintage, £6.99 Lost Earth: A Life of Cezanne by Philip Callow, Allison & Busby, £11.99 The Hollywood History of the World by George MacDonald Fraser, Harvill, £15.99 Ralph Richardson by John Miller, Pan, £6.99 Gladstone and Dilke by Roy Jenkins, Papermac, £10 each Inside Westminster by John Biffen, Deutsch, £9.99 Christopher Wood by Richard Ingleby, Allison & Busby, £14.99 The Man in the Mirror of the Book: A Life of Jorge Luis Borges by James Woodall, Sceptre, £7.99 Poetry: Jane Austen: Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family edited by David Selwyn, Carcanet, £7.95 A Poet's Choice by Elizabeth Jennings, Carcanet, £6.95