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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Rome by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, £8.95 Three Literary Friendships by John Lehmann, Quartet, f4.95 Leaves of the Tulip Tree by Juliette Hux- ley, OUP, £4.95 Where There's a Will by Michael Hesel- tine, Hutchinson, £4.95 The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photo- graphs of London 1839-79 by Gavin Stamp, Penguin, £7.95 Rossini by Richard Osborne, Dent, £5.95 The World of Yesterday and The Queen of Scots by Stephan Zweig, Cassell, £6.95 and £5.95 Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biogra- phy of Vita Sackville-West by Jane Brown, Penguin, £7.95 Arabia by Jonathan Raban, Picador, £3.95 Richard III by Paul Murray Kendall, Un- win , £8.95 Testimony: The Memoirs of Shostakovich edited by Solomon Volkov, Faber, £7.95 Offshore: A North Sea Journey by A. Alvarez, Sceptre, £3.95 In Search of Blandings by N. T. P. Mur- phy, Penguin, £6.95 The Lost Hero: A Biography of Subhas Bose by Mihir Bose, Quartet, £6.95 Somerville and Ross by Gifford Lewis, Penguin, £7.95 Yeats by Richard Ellmann, Penguin, £5.95 The Well-Tempered Garden by Christ- opher Lloyd, Penguin, £8.95 Carson by H. Montgomery Hyde, Const- able, £9.95 Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book by Hilary Spurling, Penguin, £7.95 Marie Bonaparte by Celia Bertin, Quartet, £6.95 The London Encyclopaedia edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert, Mac- millian, £12.95 Asking for Trouble and Biko by Donald Woods, Penguin, £4.95 and £3.95 I Write What I Like by Steve Biko, Heinemann, £3.95 The Island: A Journey to Sakhalin by Anton Chekhov, Century, £5.95 Memoir of Jane Austen by James Austen- Leigh, Century, £4.95 Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting 1700-1760 by Elizabeth Einberg, Tate Gallery Publications, £15.95 The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humor- ous Quotations compiled by Fred Metcalf, Penguin, £6.95 Constance Markievicz by Sean O'Faolain, Hutchinson, £5.95 Victoria of England by Edith Sitwell, Hutchinson, £6.95 Unshackled by Christabel Pankhurst, Hutchinson, £6.95 More Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, OUP, £4.95 Cities and People by Mark Girouard, Yale, £12.95 Fiction: Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey, Penguin, £3.95 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis, Penguin, £3.95 A Taste for Death by P. D. James, Sphere, £3.50 Fortunes of War Vols I and II by Olivia Manning, Penguin, £5.95 and £4.95 The Polyglots by William Gerhardie, OUP, £4.95 The House in Clewe Street by Mary Lavin, Virago, £4.95 The Autograph Hound by John Lahr, Methuen, £3.95 Memoirs of Many in One edited by Patrick White, Penguin, £3.95 The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, OUP, £3.95 Children of Light by Robert Stone, Pen- guin, £3.95 An Admirable Woman by Arthur Cohen, Paladin, £3.95 Mr Alfred M.A. by George Friel, Cannon- gate, £3.95 The Haunted Woman by David Lindsay, Cannongate, £3.95