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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction Sexual Desire by Roger Scruton, Weiden- feld, £8.95 Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Trevor- Roper, Macmillan, £6.95 The Airman and the Carpenter by Ludovic Kennedy, Fontana, £3.95 Melbourne by David Cecil, Constable, £8.95 A Portrait of Charles Lamb by David Cecil, Constable, £6.95 The Viceroys of India by Mark Bence- Jones, Constable, £5.95 Alps and Sanctuaries by Samuel Butler, Alan Sutton, £5.95 Old Men Forget by Duff Cooper, Century, £6.95 Ghastly Good Taste by John Betjeman, National Trust Classics, £4.95 Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life by Lyn- dall Gordon, OUP, £4.95 Diary of an Art Dealer by Rene Gimpel, Hamish Hamilton, £6.95 Edinburgh: A Traveller's Companion by David Daiches, Constable, £6.95 The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950's by Blake Morrison, Universi- ty Paperbacks, £7.95 The Black Death by Robert S. Gottfried, Macmillan, £5.95 Cocteau by Francis Steegmuller, Const- able, £9.95 A.J.A. Symonds: His Life and Speculations by Julian Symonds, OUP, £4.95 Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, Faber, £7.95 An Art Tour of Russia by J. Beavington Atkinson, Waterstone, £6.95 Coming Down the Seine by Robert Gib- bings, Waterstone, £6.95 Notes of a Tour in Northern Italy by George E. Street, Waterstone, £6.95 Memories and Glimpses by A. L. Rowse, Methuen, £6.95 Now to my Mother by Susan Chitty, Weidenfeld, £4.95 Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler, Fontana, £5.95 The Spencers of Althorpe by Georgina Battiscombe, Constable, £6.95 The Price of Truth: The Story of the Reuters Millions by John Lawrenson and Lionel Barber, Sphere, £3.50 The State of the Language: English Observed by Philip Howard, Penguin, £3.50 Your a Brick Angela: The Girl's Story 1839-1985 by Mary Cadogan and Patricia Craig, Gollancz, £4.95 Fiction C by Maurice Baring, OUP, £6.95 The Maias by Eca de Queiroz, Everyman, £4.95 Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone, Every- man, £4.95 The Glass-sided Ants' Nest by Peter Dick- inson, Arrow, £1.95 Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton, OUP' £3.95 Mr Beluncle by V.S. Pritchett, OUP, £3.95 The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole by Frederick Rolfe, OUP, £3.95 Mr Wakefield's Crusade by Bernice Rubens, Abacus, £3.50 Dodo, An Omnibus by E.F. Benson, Hog- garth, £3.95 The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, Faber, £3.95 Suicide Expected by Cyril Hare, Hogarth, £2.95 Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer, Penguin, £3.50 An Answer from Limbo by Brian Moore, Andre Deutsch, £3.95 The Kingdom of the Wicked by Anthony Burgess, Abacus, £3.95 Out of Shelter by David Lodge, Penguin' £2.50 Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively, Penguin, £2.25 The Needle by Francis King, Penguin' £2.25 A Suitable Case for Corruption by Norman Lewis, Penguin, £2.95