4 JUNE 1988, Page 33

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Sugar and Other Stories by A. S. Byatt, Penguin, £3.95 Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis, Penguin, £3.50 Black Swan by Christopher Hope, Arena, £2.50 The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese, Sceptre, £3.50 Plato Park by Carol Rumens, Flamingo, £3.95 The Curious Case of Sidd Finch by George Plimpton, Bloomsbury, £4.95 The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul, Penguin, £4.95 Sam Patch: Ballad of a Jumping Man by William Getz, Black Swan, £4.95 The Green Man and The Alteration by Kingsley Amis, Penguin, £2.50 each The Secret Lemonade Drinker by Guy Bellamy, Penguin, £2.95 The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia, Paladin, £3.95 King Queen Knave by Vladimir Nabokov, OUP, £3.95 The Centaur by John Updike, Deutsch, £4.95

Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth, Picador, £3.95 Answered Prayers by Truman Capote, Abacus, £3.95

The Man Without Qualities Vol II by Robert Musil, Picador, £5.95 Witchcraft by Nigel Williams, Faber, £4.95 The Fallow Land by H. E. Bates, Robinson, £3.95

The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories selected by Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver, OUP, £7.95 Non-fiction: Armed Truce by Hugh Thomas, Sceptre, £7.95 Write On by David Lodge, Penguin, £3.95 In These Times by Bernard Levin, Sceptre, £3.95 Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess, Penguin, £5.95 A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson, Weidenfeld, £8.95 Apple's Europe by R. W. Apple Jr, Papermac, £7.95 Out to Lunch by Paul Levy, Penguin, £6.95 On and Off the Record by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Faber, £5.95 Spirit of Place by Lawrence Durrell, Faber, £5.95 The Artful Partners: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson, Unwin, £4.95

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona and Peter Opie, OUP, £4.95

G. K. Chesterton by Michael Ffinch, Weidenfeld, £8.95 Enid Bagnold by Anne Sebba, Weidenfeld, £8.95 Desert Islands by Walter de la Mare, Faber, £5.95 The Oxford History of Britain, edited by Kenneth 0. Morgan, OUP, £6.95 The Aristocracy of England 1660-1914 by J. V. Beckett, Blackwell, £9.95 Subsequent Performances by Jonathan Miller, Faber, £6.95 The Lives of Lee Miller by Anthony Penrose, Thames & Hudson, £14.95 Lanning Roper and His Garden by Jane Brown, Weidenfeld, £10.95 The English Garden Room edited by Elizabeth Dickson, Weidenfeld, £8.95 Encyclopaedia of British Art edited by David Bindman, Thames & Hudson, £4.95 E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, edited by Philip Gardner, Wildwood House, £8.95 John Keats by Aileen Ward, Faber, £7.95 Honeytrap by Anthony Summers, Coronet, £3.50 In Search of London by H. V. Morton, Methuen, £7.95 Napoleon 1812 by Nigel Nicolson, Weidenfeld, £6.95 Callas As They Saw Her by David A. Lowe, Robson, £6.95 The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, Pan, £4.99 Dorothy Wordsworth by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, OUP, £4.95 James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, OUP, £9.95 Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania by Edward Lear, Century Hutchinson, £5.95 Voltaire by A. J. Ayer, Faber, £4.95 The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Coleridge by Molly Lefebure, Gollancz, £4.95 Opium and the Romantic Imagination by Alethea Hayter, Crucible, £7.99 John Aubrey and his Friends by Anthony Powell, Hogarth, £7.95 The Humanist Tradition in the West by Alan Bullock, Norton, $14.95 Hitler's Table-Talk introduced by Hugh Trevor-Roper, OUP, £6.95 George: An Early Autobiography by Emlyn Williams, Hamish Hamilton, £6.95 R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Ursula Williams, OUP, £6.95 I Was a Stranger by General Sir John Hackett, Hogarth, £5.95 Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland, Penguin, £3.95 The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin, Weidenfeld, £4.95 Poetry The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse, edited by Donald Davie, OUP, £4.95 More Poetry Please! selected by Margaret Bradley, BBC, £2.95