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Vol. 2 No. 16 · 21 August 1980
Peter Jenkins
Governments and Trade Unions: The British Experience 1964-79 by Denis Barnes and Eileen Reid. Heinemann, 240 pp., £12.50, May 1980, 0 435 83045 7
Letters
Jean Raison, Hans Keller, Ezekiel Emanuel, Clive James, Garrett Barden, Freeman Dyson
David Marquand
The Secret Constitution by Brian Sedgemore. Hodder, 256 pp., £7.95, July 1980, 0 340 24649 9 The Civil Servants by Peter Kellner and Lord Crowther-Hunt. Macdonald/Jane’s, 352 pp., £9.95, July 1980, 0 354 04487 7
Neal Ascherson
The Oak and the Calf by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Collins Harvill, 568 pp., £8.95, July 1980, 0 06 014014 3
Victoria Brittain
Ghosts of Kampala: The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin by George Ivan Smith. Weidenfeld, 198 pp., £7.95, June 1980, 0 297 77721 1 African Upheavals since Independence by G.S. Ibingira. Westview/Benn, 349 pp., £14.95, January 1980, 0 89158 585 0 A Political History of Uganda by S.R. Karugire. Heinemann, 240 pp., £7.50, May 1980, 0 435 94524 6
Robert Blake
We and They, Civic and Despotic Cultures by Robert Conquest. Temple Smith, 252 pp., £12.50, April 1980, 0 85117 184 2 The Recovery of Freedom by Paul Johnson. Blackwell, 232 pp., £8.50, August 1980, 0 631 12562 0
Charles Villiers
Charles Villiers, who has recently retired as Chairman of the British Steel Corporation, on his experience of trade-union power
Paul Addison
Balfour by Max Egremont. Collins, 391 pp., £12.95, June 1980, 0 00 216043 9
Jon Elster
Irrational Politics
Peter Parsons
Antigone in middle age
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns. Blackwell, 386 pp., £15, June 1980, 0 631 10991 9
Robert Taubman
Selected Works of Djuna Barnes Faber, 366 pp., £5.50, July 1980, 0 571 11579 9 Black Venus’s Tale by Angela Carter. Next Editions/Faber, 35 pp., £1.95, June 1980, 9780907147022 The Last Peacock by Allan Massie. Bodley Head, 185 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 370 30261 3 The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis. Duckworth, 152 pp., £6.95, July 1980, 0 7156 1491 6
Julian Symons
The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning. Penguin, 287 pp., £1.25, March 1980, 0 14 003543 5
Neil McKendrick
The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897 by Barbara Wedgwood and Hensleigh Wedgwood. Studio Vista, 386 pp., £9.95, May 1980, 0 289 70892 3
Clive James
Poem: ‘The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs’
Hugh Tulloch
On the Edge of Paradise by David Newsome. Murray, 405 pp., £17.50, June 1980, 0 7195 3690 1
Ahdaf Soueif
Story: ‘Her Man’
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Colonist by Michael Schmidt. Frederick Muller, 125 pp., £5.95, April 1980, 0 584 31056 0
Derek Mahon
Selected Poems by Donald Justice. Anvil, 137 pp., £3.50, May 1980, 0 85646 058 3 Exactions by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 80 pp., £2.95, April 1980, 0 85635 332 9
Gabriel Josipovici
Dante by George Holmes. Oxford, 104 pp., £95, April 1980, 0 19 287504 3 The Divine Comedy: A New Verse Translation by C.H. Sisson. Carcanet, 455 pp., £8.95, April 1980, 9780856352737
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