Literary editor's recommendations
Fiction
Ronan Bennett: The Catastrophist (Review, £6.99)
Justin Cartwright: Leading the Cheers (Sceptre, £6.99)
Candida Clark: The Last Look (Vintage, £5.99)
Julia Darling: Crocodile Soup (Anchor, £6.99)
Kiran Desai: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Faber & Faber, £6.99)
Giles Foden: The Last King of Scotland (Faber, £6.99)
Alex Garland: The Tesseract (Penguin, £5.99)
Woody Haut: Neon Noir: contemporary American crime fiction (Serpent's Tail, £9.99)
John Helmer: Mother Tongue (Quartet Books, £10)
Andrew Martin: Bilton (Faber, £6.99)
David Nobbs: The Reginald Perrin Omnibus (Arrow, £10)
Leonardo Sciascia: The Council of Egypt (Carcanet, £9.95)
W G Sebald: The Rings of Saturn (Harvill, £6.99)
Ludmila Ulitskaya: Sonechka and Other Stories:
new writing from Russia (GLAS Publishing, £8.99)
Non-fiction
John Diamond: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too . . . (Vermilion, £6.99)
Jonathan Dollimore: Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (Penguin, £9.99)
Henry Hobhouse: Seeds of Change: six plants that transformed mankind (Papermac, £12)
Dan Jacobson: Heshel's Kingdom (Penguin, £7.99)
Stephen Kuusisto: Planet of the Blind (Faber & Faber, £6.99)
David Landes: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Abacus, £10.99)
Liberty (ed): Liberating Cyberspace: civil liberties, human rights and the Internet (Pluto Press, £18.65)
Russell Miller: Magnum: 50 years at the front line of history(Pimlico, £12.50)
Josef Piefer: Leisure: the basis of culture (St Augustine's Press, £7.99)
Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya: Singing Away the Hunger: a memoir of South Africa (Souvenir Press, £9.99)
John O'Farrell: Things Can Only Get Better (Black Swan, £6.99)
Don Oberdorfer: The Two Koreas: a contemporary history (Warner Books, £9.99)
Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works (Penguin, £9.99)
George Plimpton: Truman Capote (Picador, £7.99)
Robert Ross: A Concise History of South Africa (CUP, £10.99)
Sheila Rowbotham: Threads Through Time: writings on history and autobiography (Penguin, £8.99)
Marion Shoard: A Right To Roam: should we open up Britain's countryside? (OUP, £8.99)
Richard Appignanesi & Chris Garratt: Introducing: postmodernism (Icon Books, £8.99)
D M Thomas: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Abacus, £10.99)
Dmitri Volkogonov: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (HarperCollins, £12.99)
Robert Winder: Hell for Leather: a modern cricket journey (Indigo, £7.99)
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