The Spectator

A selection of recent paperbacks | 9 December 2006

issue 09 December 2006

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)

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