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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset, Fontana, £8.99

Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings, Paper- mac, £9.99 A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani, Faber, £9.99 The Life of Arthur Ransome by Hugh Brogan, Pimlico, £10 A Moment of War by Laurie Lee, Penguin, £4.99 Ngaio Marsh by Margaret Lewis, Hogarth, £9.99

John Masetield by Muriel Spark, Pimlico, £8

Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Volume I by Nicholas Boyle, OUP, £15

Frederick II by David Abulafia, Pimlico, £10 The Cambridge Guide to the Theatre, edited by Martin Banham, CUP, £14.95 Letters of Leonard Woolf edited by Frederick Spotts, Bloomsbury, £14.99 Shelley and his World by Claire Tomalin, Penguin, £5.99

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford, Mandarin, £4.99 Fiction: The Hanging Tree by Allan Massie, Mandarin, £5.99

A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner, Penguin, £5.99

The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge, Penguin, £5.99 The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey, Faber, £5.99 Last Lovers by William Wharton, Granta, £5.99 Varying Degrees of Hopelessness by Lucy Ellmann, Penguin, £5.99 Trick or Treat by Lesley Glaister, Minerva, £4.99 Moon over Minneapolis by Fay Weldon Flamingo, £4.99 The Joke by Milan Kundera, Faber, £5.99 Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Faber, £5.99 Talking It Over by Julian Barnes, Picador, £5.99 Adam, one afternoon by halo Calvino, Minerva, £4.99

The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories by Edith Wharton, Penguin, £6.99 Poetry: Collected Poems by Robert Graves, Cassell, £9.99

Three Chinese Poets translated by Vikram Seth, Faber, £6.99