PICK OF THE PAPERBACKS

Hope and Suffering by Bishop Desmond Tutu (Fount, £1.75). Desmond Tutu has fearlessly proclaimed to a world audience the injustice of South Africa's apartheid system on many occasions. An Anglican bishop and Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches, he challenges the while minority government of his home country and its refusal of basic human rights to a section of the population on the basis of colour alone. Using biblical themes, these sermons urge reconciliation and love in the face of forced removal of blacks, arbitary imprisonment and injustice. Bishop Tutu's words have a power reminiscent of Marlin Luther King.
The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe (Faber, £2.95) Being a great admirer of the new wave in Australian cinema, I opened this collection of short stories, already a best-seller in Australia, with anticipation. Grouped around a central image of lazy summer days spent on or near a beach, the collection is a great disapointment. The stories are bland and written with a clumsy wordiness, and any unique or interesting side of Australian culture fails miserably to come across.
Memoirs of an Aesthete by Harold Acton (Hamish Hamilton, £5.95) Florence, Peking before Mao, Oxford and Paris are just a selection of the places where Harold Acton found a home in the 35 years covered in this vivid and witty account of his childhood, adolescence and early manhood. First published in 1948 this is a still delicious memoir, rightly regarded as a classic of its genre.
Peter Hall's Diaries, edited by John Goodwin (Hamish Hamilton, £5.95) The years leading up to the foundation of the National Theatre were indeed momentous ones for Peter Hall, its first director. In these informal and informative diaries, he casts light on the entire theatre world, recounting encounters with "Larry" (Olivier) and "Ilarold" (Pinter) and a host of other stars. The same microscopic Hall examination is applied to a first night at the National as to a school play featuring his two sons in the pages of this diary, which left me with the impression that it had been written with a definite view to future publication.
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor (King Penguin, £2.50) A love story set in Ireland in the years leading up to independence. with passion set against violent revenge as Willie Quinton seeks redress for the destruction of his family seat in Co. Cork by the Black and • Tans. Beautifully written. ibis moving story won the Whitbread Award for the Best Novel of 1983.
Autobiography by Neville Cardus (Hamish Hamilton, £5.95). From humble roots in the slums of Manchester, Neville Cardus joined the Manchester Guardian in 1916 and achieved fame as a music critic and as the writer of the brilliant "Cricketer" articles. His enthusiasm for these, the two great passions of his life, is conveyed in this zestful and anacdotal work with smattering of references to J M
Barrie, Thomas Beecham and C P Scott to name just a few.
Ancestral Voices, Prophesying Peace, Caves of Ice, all by James Lees-Milne (Faber, f3.95 each). Three volumes of diaries, 1942-47, by the man who was then employed to inspect historic buildings offered by their often penniless and even more frequently wildly eccentric owners to the National Trust. Sometimes scandalous, these diaries are always funny and entertaining, as is the accompanying autobiography. Another Self (Faber,E2.95).
The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (Macmillian, £1.50). It is not only children who desire to know "how the whale got his throat" or "how the rhinoceros got his skin". The answers which baffled me as a child, here seem just as enthralling, if more straightforward, in this reprint of Kipling's 1902 work.
Objections to Nuclear Defence edited by Nigel Blake and Kay Pole (RKP, £5.95). Bernard Williams, Roger Rushton, and Michael Dummett have all contributed essays to this collection on the philosophy of deterrence which has been much questioned in recent times. Always rational, the book examines the principles which underlie our own, and many western government's defence policies in this nuclear age.
The Home Safety Book by Suzan St Maur (Robert Hale, £4.95). Each year 6,500 deaths occur through avoidable domestic accidents this exhaustive study tells us. With special sections on the disabled, the elderly, home security and pets, this is a mine of matronly advice about how to feel safer yet in your own home.
Peter Fleming