A selection of recent paperbacks
Non-fiction The Presence of the Past, by Rupert Shel- drake, Fontana, £7.99 Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier, Cardin- al, £5.99 British Writers of the Thirties by Valentine Cunningham, OUP, £9.95 The Faber Book of Reportage, edited by John Carey, Faber, £5.99 The Faber Book of Diaries, edited by Simon Brett, Faber, £5.99 The Life and Times of William Shakespeare by Peter Levi, Macmillan, £7.99 Joyce Cary, Gentleman Rider by Alan Bishop, OUP, £6.95 Tony Benn, Diaries 1968-72, Arrow, £8.99 Rich, The Life of Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg, Coronet, £4.99 Heraldry by John Martin Robinson, Chat- to, £6.99 Fanlights by John Sambrook, Chatto, £6.99 Pillar Boxes by Jonathan Glancey, Chatto, £6.99 Pure Posy by Posy Simmonds, Methuen, £4.95 Unruly Times, Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time by A. S. Byatt, Hogarth Press, £7.99 Hong Kong by Jan Morris, Penguin, £4.99 In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon, Penguin, £3.99 Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope -Fitz- gerald, Hamish Hamilton, £7.99 The Faber Book of English History in Verse edited by Kenneth Baker, Faber, £5.99 Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, Weidenfeld, £7.95 Fiction: Latecomers by Anita Brookner, Grafton, £3.50 Elephant and other stories by Raymond Carver, Collins Harvill, £4.95 Zuckerman Bound by Philip Roth, Pen- guin, £7.99 Flashman's Lady and Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser, Fontana, £3.99 Why aren't they screaming? by Joan Smith, Faber, £3.50 The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing, Paladin, £3.99 Middlepost by Anthony Sher, Sceptre, £4.99 Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield, Black Swan, £4.99 Trespasses by Paul Bailey, Penguin, £3.99 The Grasshoppers Come; Beany-Eye by David Garnett, Hogarth, £5.95 In Search of the Crack by Robert Elms, Penguin, £3.99