Magazine article The Spectator
A Selection of Recent Paperbacks
Article excerpt
Non-fiction:
Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Phoenix, £9.99)
John Clare by Jonathan Bate (Picador, £9.99)
The Affair of the Poisons by Anne Somerset (Phoenix, £8.99)
The Diaries of A. L. Rowse edited by Richard Ollard (Penguin, £10.99)
Nature Via Nurture by Matt Ridley, Harper Perennial, £8.88)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Black Swan, £8.99)
Twelve Cities by Roy Jenkins (Pan, £7.99)
Always Unreliable by Clive James (Picador, £7.99)
Janey and Me by Virginia Ironside (Harper Perennial, £7.99)
Pierre Loti by Lesley Blanch (Tauris Parke Paperbacks, £12.99)
Mussolini by Nicholas Farrell (Phoenix, £14.99)
Heresies by John Gray (Granta, £8.99)
Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman (Faber, £8.99)
The Centre of the Bed by Joan Bakewell (Sceptre, £7.99)
Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead (Vintage, £8. …