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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount (Short Books, £8.99) Louis XVIII by Philip Mansel (John Murray, £10.99) The Road to Katmandu by Patrick Marnham (Tauris Parke Paperbacks, £8.99) In Tasmania by Nicholas Shakespeare (Vintage, £8.99) The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73 edited by John Saumarez-Smith (Frances Lincoln, £6.99) Lucrezia Borgia by Sarah Bradford (Penguin, £8.99) Tamerlane by Justin Marozzi (Harper Perennial, £9.99) The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser (Phoenix, £9.99) The Book of Shadows by Don Patterson (Picador, £7.99) Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy (John Murray, £8.99) Point of Departure by James Cameron, (Granta, £8.99) The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker (Continuum, £12.99) Patrick O’Brian by Nikolai Tolstoy (Arrow, £8.99) The Harold Nicolson Diaries 1907-1964 edited by Nigel Nicolson (Phoenix, £9.99) V. S. Pritchett by Jeremy Treglown (Pimlico, £12.99) Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon (Virago, £9.99) Salonica by Mark Mazower (Harper Perennial, £8.99) Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History edited by Tom Pocock (Penguin, £7.99) A House of Air by Penelope Fitzgerald (Harper Perennial, £9.99) Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters (Harper Perennial, £7.99) Essays in Love and How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton (Picador, £7.99 each) Zeno and the Tortoise by Nicholas Fearn (Atlantic, £8.99) The Farm by Richard Benson (Penguin, £8.99) America Right or Wrong by Anatol Lieven (Harper Perennial, £8.99) Passchendaele by Philip Warner (Pen & Sword, £9.99)