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Vol. 2 No. 12 · 19 June 1980
John Vincent
George Macaulay Trevelyan: A Memoir by Mary Moorman. Hamish Hamilton, 253 pp., £9.95, April 1980, 0 241 10358 4 Public and Private by Humphrey Trevelyan. Hamish Hamilton, 208 pp., £8.95, February 1980, 0 241 10357 6
Letters
Nicolas Walter, John Dunn, John Sturrock, Ian Hamilton, Calvin Hall
Patricia Beer
Poem: ‘The Spinsters and the Knitters in the Sun’
Ronald Dworkin
The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. Secker, 467 pp., £7.95, March 1980, 0 436 58122 1
Leslie Scarman
The Due Process of Law by Lord Denning. Butterworth, 263 pp., £8.95, February 1980, 0 406 17607 8
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘Charnel’
Stuart Hampshire
Life Chances by Ralf Dahrendorf. Weidenfeld, 181 pp., £8.95, January 1980, 0 297 77682 7
Barbara Wootton
Sage: A Life of J.D. Bernal by Maurice Goldsmith. Hutchinson, 255 pp., £8.95, May 1980, 9780091395506
Rudolf Peierls
Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson. Harper and Row, 283 pp., £6.95, November 1979, 0 06 011108 9
C.B. Macpherson
Turning-Points in World History by Geoffrey Barraclough. Thames and Hudson, 96 pp., £4.50, November 1979, 0 500 25067 7
Christopher Hill
Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649 by R.T. Kendall. Oxford, 252 pp., £12.50, February 1980, 0 19 826716 9
Frank Kermode
The Generation of 1914 by Robert Wohl. Weidenfeld, 307 pp., £12.95, March 1980, 0 297 77756 4
A.D. Moody
Henry James. Letters. Volume II: 1875-1883 edited by Leon Edel. Macmillan, 438 pp., £15, March 1980, 0 333 18045 3 Henry James: The Later Novels by Nicola Bradbury. Oxford, 228 pp., £12, December 1979, 0 19 812096 6
Robert Taubman
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing. Cape, 245 pp., £5.95, May 1980, 9780224017909 No Country For Young Men by Julia O’Faolain. Allen Lane, 368 pp., £5.95, May 1980, 0 7139 1308 8 The Girl Green as Elderflower by Randolph Stow. Secker, 150 pp., £5.50, May 1980, 9780436497315 The Sending by Geoffrey Household. Joseph, 192 pp., £5.95, March 1980, 0 7181 1872 3
Simon Raven
The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction by Stephen Adams. Vision, 208 pp., £10.95, March 1980, 0 85478 204 4
Charles Hope
The ‘Triumphs of Caesar’ by Andrea Mantegna in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Hampton Court by Andrew Martindale. Harvey Miller, 342 pp., £38, October 1979, 9780905203164
Fergus Millar
Romans and Aliens by J.P.V.D. Balsdon. Duckworth, 310 pp., £18, August 1979, 0 7156 1043 0 Pompey: A Political Biography by Robin Seager. Blackwell, 209 pp., £12, August 1979, 0 631 10841 6 The Gracchi by David Stockton. Oxford, 251 pp., £9.50, October 1979, 0 19 872104 8 Cicero: the Ascending Years by Thomas Mitchell. Yale, 257 pp., £11, September 1979, 0 300 02277 8 Clio’s Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature by T.P. Wiseman. Leicester University Press, 209 pp., £13, November 1979, 0 7185 1165 4
Robert Graham
The Fall of the Shah by Fereydoun Hoveyda. Weidenfeld, 166 pp., £6.95, January 1980, 9780297777229 The Fall of the Peacock Throne by William Forbis. Harper and Row, 305 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 06 337008 5
Gabriele Annan
Mamaji by Ved Mehta. Oxford, 334 pp., £6.95, April 1980, 0 19 502640 3
Ken Follett
Conspiracy by Anthony Summers. Gollancz, 639 pp., £9.95, May 1980, 0 575 02846 7 The Man Who Kept the Secrets by Thomas Powers. Weidenfeld, 393 pp., £10, April 1980, 0 297 77738 6
Dan Jacobson
On the eve of something in South Africa
Norman MacCaig
Sacred Keeper by Peter Kavanagh. Goldsmith Press, 403 pp., £4.40, May 1979, 0 904984 48 6 Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin. Poolbeg Press, 201 pp., £1.75, May 1980, 9780905169316 The Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature edited by Robert Hogan. Macmillan, 815 pp., £2, February 1980, 0 333 27085 1
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