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Vol. 1 No. 2 · 8 November 1979
Garret FitzGerald
Preconditions for an Irish Peace
Letters
Stephen Fender, W.L. Webb, N.F. McDowell, Sidney Blackmore, Michael Neve
Christopher Ricks
Field Work by Seamus Heaney. Faber, 64 pp., £3, June 1979, 0 571 11433 4
D.J. Enright
The Pornographer by John McGahern. Faber, 252 pp., £4.95
A.B. Cooke
The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland, 1921-1939 by Patrick Buckland. Gill and Macmillan, 365 pp., £13
John Vincent
Jeremy Thorpe: A Secret Life by Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater and David May. Fontana, 371 pp., £1.50
Phillip Whitehead
Arguments for Socialism by Tony Benn. Cape, 206 pp., £5.95Socialism without the State by Evan Luard. Macmillan, 184 pp., £3.95Can Labour Win Again? by Austin Mitchell. Fabian Society, 30 pp., £75Enemies of Democracy by Paul McCormick. Temple Smith, 228 pp., £7.50
Valerie Pearl
King Charles II by Antonia Fraser. Weidenfeld, 524 pp., £8.95
Robert Taubman
The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White. Cape, 432 pp., £5.95
Neil Rennie
Poem: ‘Love and the Aeroplane’
John Sutherland
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth. Hutchinson, 479 pp., £5.95The Four Hundred by Stephen Sheppard. Secker, 374 pp., £5.25
Jane Miller
Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) by Christina Stead. Virago, 308 pp., £5.95
Ian Hamilton
A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow. Macmillan, 349 pp., £5.95
Patricia Beer
The Intruder by Gillian Tindall. Hodder, 286 pp., £5.95Mother Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Forster. Secker, 269 pp., £5.90Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively. Heinemann, 199 pp., £4.95Wild Nights by Emma Tennant. Cape, 134 pp., £4.50
Nicholas Mosley
The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky by Ronald Segal. Hutchinson, 445 pp., £12.50
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