12 JULY 1997, Page 37

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: The Tailor of Panama by John Le Cane, Coronet, £6.99 The Guest by Charlotte Cory, Faber, £7.99 Worst Fears by Fay Weldon, Flamingo, £5.99 Altered States by Anita Brookner, Penguin, £6.99 Strange and Well Bred by Sophia Watson, Sceptre, £6.99

The Ice House by Minette Walters, Pan, £5.99

The Psalm Killer by Chris Petit, Pan, £5.99 Tennyson's Gift by Lynne Truss, Penguin, £6.99

After Hannibal by Barry Unsworth, Penguin, £6.99

The Conversations at Curlew Creek by David Malouf, Vintage, £5.99 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Abacus, £9.99 The Orchard on Fire by Sheena Mackay, Minerva, £5.99 The Swan by Gudbergur Bergsson, Mare's Nest, £8.95 Mavis Belfrage by Alasdair Gray, Blooms- bury, £5.99 Non-fiction: Congo Journey by Remond O'Hanlon, Penguin, £5.99

Holy Smoke by C. Cabrera Infante, Faber, £7.99 When the Music Stops by Norman Lebrecht, Pocket Books, £7.99

A Short History of the Shadow by Victor I. Stoichita, Reaktion Books, £14.95 Recovering by May Sarton, The Women's Press, £8.99 The Travels of a Fat Bulldog by George Courtauld, Abacus, £7.99 Robert Runcie by Humphrey Carpenter, Sceptre, £7.99 No Passion Spent by George Steiner, Faber, £9.99 The Queen by Ben Pimlott, HarperCollins, £9.99 Tickle the Public by Matthew Engel, Indigo, £8.99

Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sinclair-Stevenson, £12.99

The Principle of Duty by David Selboume, Abacus, £8.99

Hong Kong by Steve Tsang, I. B. Tauris, £10.95

A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh, HarperCollins, £9.99

Interplay by D. J. Enright, OUP, £9.99 Light Fantastic by John Lahr, Bloomsbury, £9.99