9 DECEMBER 2006, Page 53

A selection of recent paperbacks

Fiction: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Penguin, £7.99) The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing (Harper Perennial, £7.99) The Pure in Heart by Susan Hill, Vintage, £6.99 Making It Up by Penelope Lively (Penguin, £7.99) The Children of Men by P .D. James (Faber, £6.99) Bordeaux Housewives by Daisy Waugh (Harper, £6.99) Four Stories by Alan Bennett (London Review of Books, £7.99) Songs on Bronze: Greek Myths Retold by Nigel Spivey (Faber, £8.99) Non-fiction: Have I Got Views for You by Boris Johnson (Harper Perennial, £7.99) Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith (Public Affairs, £9.99) 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Faber, £8.99) Scott of the Antarctic by David Crane (Harper Perennial, £8.99) Men of Honour by Adam Nicolson (Harper Perennial, £7.99) Earthly Powers by Michael Burleigh (Harper Perennial, £9.99) The Planets by Dava Sobel (Harper Perennial, £7.99) Matisse, Volumes I & II by Hilary Spurling (Penguin, £16.99, £14.99) Zimmer Men by Marcus Berkmann (Abacus, £7.99) The Princess and the Politician by John Charmley (Penguin, £9.99) Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Vintage, £15) The Story of Film by Mark Cousins (Pavilion, £14.99) A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm (Abacus, £8.99) The Laughter of Triumph by Ben Wilson (Faber, £9.99) Cleopatra by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Pimlico, £8.99) A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel (Canongate, £8.99) The Chains of Heaven by Philip Marsden (Harper Perennial, £8.99) Untold Stories by Alan Bennett (Faber/ Profile, £9.99) Fencing Paradise: The Uses and Abuses of Plants by Richard Mabey (Eden Project Books, £8.99)