A selection of recent paperbacks
Fiction: The Children of Men by P. D. James, Faber, £8.99 Persistent Rumours by Lee Langley, Mandarin, £5.99 Serenity House by Christopher Hope, Picador, £5.99 The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernieres, Minerva, £5.99 Mefisto by John Banville, Minerva, £4.99 Arcadia by Jim Crace, Picador, £5.99 Chapel Street by Sam North, Minerva, £5.99 Lipstick on the Host by Aidan Mathews, Minerva, £5.99 The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, Picador, £5.99 Anthony Trollope: The Collected Shorter Fiction edited by Julian Thompson, Robin- son, £11.95 Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, OUP, £4.99 Non-fiction: Always Your Friend: The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares, Pimlico, £12.50 Tears Before Bedtime and Weep No More by Barbara Skelton, Pimlico, £10 A Cezanne in the Hedge and Other Memories of Charleston and Bloomsbury edited by Hugh Lee, Collins & Brown, £9.99 Inside Outsider: The Life and Times of Colin Maclnnes by Tony Gould, Allison & Busby, £6.99 Diderot by P. N. Furbank, Minerva, £7.99 The Macmillans by Richard Davenport- Hines, Mandarin, £6.99 The Lessons of History by Michael Howard, OUP, £6.99 A Circle Round the Sun by Peregrine Hodson, Mandarin, £5.99 Hard Travellin': The Story of the Migrant Worker by Kenneth Allsop, Pimlico, £10 Italian Neighbours by Tim Parks, Man- darin, £5.99 The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II by Richard 011ard, Pimlico, £9 Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific by Julian Evans, Minerva, £5.99 Biographers and the Art of Biography by Ulick O'Connor, Quartet, £7.95 A Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre edited by Phyllis Hartnell and Peter Found, OUP, £7.99 Astraea by Frances Yates, Pimlico, £12 The Face of War and View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn, Granta, £6.99, £7.99 Aldous Huxley by Sybille Bedford, Paper- mac, £14.99 The Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern, Pimlico, £8 Howard Carter and the Discovery of Tutankhamun by H.V.F. Winstone, Constable, £10.95 Poetry: Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray, Carcanet, £6.95 The Pocket Mirror by Janet Frame, The Women's Press, £7.99 Friend of Heraclitus by Patricia Beer, Carcanet, £6.95 85 Poems by Gavin Ewart, Hutchinson, £7.99 Selected Poems, 1972-1990 by Tom Paulin, Faber, 35.99 Anthologies: The Oxford Book of the Sea edited by Jonathan Raban, OUP, £7.99 Writers on World War II edited by Morde- cai Richler, Vintage, £9.99