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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Longitude by Dava Sobel, 4th Estate, £5.99 The Last Governor by Jonathan Dimbleby, Warner, £9.99 The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm, Fontana, £7.99 As If by Blake Morrison, Granta, £7.99 Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh, 4th Estate, £6.99 Oscar Wilde by Sheridan Morley, Pavilion, £9.99 The Island of the Colour Blind by Oliver Sacks, Picador, £7.99 Virtual History edited by Niall Ferguson, Papermac, £10 Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer, Abacus, £6.99 Dinner with Persephone by Patricia Storage, Granta, £8.99 The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody, Fontana, £9.99 Jennifer's Diary by One Fat Lady, The Oldie, £5.99 The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre, Flamingo, £7.99 Liberty or Death by Patrick French, Flamingo, £7.99 Eminent Georgians by John Halperin, Macmillan, £12.99 Journals 1990-1992 by Anthony Powell, Heinemann, £12.99 How Much Do You Think a Writer Needs to Live On? edited by Alain de Botton, Waterstones, £2 Dead Certainties by Simon Schama, Gran- ta, £8.99 Travels in an Old Tongue by Pamela Petro, Flamingo, £7.99 Courtesans and Fishcakes by James David- son, Fontana, £9.99 Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones, Duckworth, £9.95 Fiction: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Phoenix, £6.99 A Certain Justice by P.D. James, Faber, £9.99 Beyond the Blue Mountains by Penelope Lively, Penguin, £6.99 Europa by Tim Parks, Vintage, £6.99 Echoes of War by William Riviere, Sceptre, £6.99 A Hand at the Shutter by Francis King, Allison & Busby, £7.99 High Latitudes by James Buchan, Harvill, £6.99 Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, Faber, £6.99 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Flamingo, £6.99