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A selection of recent paperbacks

Non-fiction: Curzon by David Gilmour, Papermac, £13 Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, Abacus, £8.99

Age of Extremes: A Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm, Abacus, £9.99 John Betjeman: Letters, Volume I edited by Candida Lycett Green, Minerva, £7.99 Prologue by Joan Brady, Abacus, £6.99 The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo by Janine di Giovanni, Phoenix, £5.99 The Serpent on the Rock A Personal View of Christianity by Alice Thomas Ellis, Sceptre, £6.99 The War with Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939- 1945, Mandarin, £5.99 A Fish in the Water by Mario Vargas Llosa, Faber, £8.99 The Russian Question at the End of the 20th Century by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvill, £7.99

As Much as I Dare by Arnold Wesker, Arrow, £9.99

Love Lessons and Love is Blue: Diaries of the War Years by Joan Wyndham, Man- darin, £6.99 William Morris by Fiona MacCarthy, Faber, £12.99 Peter Scott by Elspeth Huxley, Faber, £9.99 Coming Back Brockens by Mark Hudson, Vintage, £7.99 A Bag of Boiled Sweets by Julian Critchley, Faber, £6.99 lain Macleod by Robert Shepherd, Pimlico, £14 Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic 1895- 1926; The Years with Laura Riding 1926- 1940 by Richard Perceval Graves, Weidenfeld, £14.99 each Fiction: The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare, Picador, £5.99 Borneo Fire by William Riviere, Sceptre, £5.99 The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt, Vintage, £5.99 Poetry: History: The Home Movie by Craig Raine, Penguin, £6.99 Collected Poems by P. J. Kavanagh, Car- canet, £9.95

Collected Poems by R.S. Thomas, Phoenix, £9.99

The Dead Sea Poems by Simon Armitage, Faber, £6.99