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A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: English Weather by Neil Ferguson, Indigo, £6.99 With Friends Like These by Nicholas Coleridge, Orion, £5.99 Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine, Sceptre, £6.99 The Long Shadows by Alan Brownjohn, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £6.99 The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff, Bloomsbury, £6.99 The Gathering Bunker: Golfing Short Stories by Kevin Pakenham, Warner, £5.99 Non-fiction: Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee, Vintage, 18.99 Robert Runcie by Humphrey Carpenter, Sceptre, £7.99 Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson, Bloomsbury, £8.99 Charles Waterton by Julia Blackburn, Vintage, £7.99 Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity by Akbar S. Ahmed, Routledge, £12.99 Europe: A History by Norman Davies, Pimlico, £12.50 The Daily Telegraph Second Book of Obituaries: Heroes and Adventurers edited by Hugh Massingberd, Pan, £6.99 Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, Pimlico, £12.50 Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932- 1944 by Joyce Grenfell, Sceptre, £7.99 Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife by Ann Thwaite, Faber, £14.99 Life's Grandeur by Stephen Jay Gould, Vintage, £7.99 Erskine Childers by Jim Ring, John Murray, £12.99 Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh, Faber, £12.99 Duff Cooper by John Charmley, Phoenix Giant, £11.99 An Introduction to the Ancient World by L. de Bois and R. J. van der Spek, Routledge, £14.99 About Modern Art by David Sylvester, Pimlico, £12.50 Carl Gustav Jung by Frank McLynn, Black Swan, £12.99 Enoch Powell by Robert Shepherd, Pimlico, £14 Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot, Virago, £7.99 Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler, Vintage, £6.99 Etruscan Art by Nigel Spivey, Thames & Hudson, £6.95