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Vol. 4 No. 21 · 18 November 1982
Neal Ascherson
Authors take sides on the Falklands edited by Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Cecil Woolf, 144 pp., £4.95, August 1982, 0 900821 63 9 The Falklands War: The Full Story by the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ Team. Deutsch and Sphere, 276 pp., £2.50, October 1982, 0 233 97515 2 The Winter War: The Falklands by Patrick Bishop and John Witherow. Quartet, 153 pp., £2.95, September 1982, 0 7043 3424 0 Iron Britannia: Why Parliament waged its Falklands war by Anthony Barnett. Allison and Busby, 160 pp., £2.95, November 1982, 0 85031 494 1 Falklands/Malvinas: Whose Crisis? by Martin Honeywell. Latin American Bureau, 135 pp., £1.95, September 1982, 0 906156 15 7 Los Chicos de la Guerra by Daniel Kon. Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, August 1982A Message from the Falklands: The Life and Gallant Death of David Tinker, Lieut RN compiled by Hugh Tinker. Junction, 224 pp., £3.50, November 1982, 0 86245 102 7
Letters
A.D. Harvey, Peter Redgrove, Harold Jenkins, Stephen Heath, Brigid Brophy, John Corner, Colin Haycraft
Andrew Motion
Two Poems
Dan Jacobson
White Mischief by James Fox. Cape, 293 pp., £8.95, November 1982, 0 224 01731 4 Earth to Earth by John Cornwell. Allen Lane, 174 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 7139 1045 3
Michael Neve
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein and George Plimpton. Cape, 455 pp., £9.95, October 1982, 0 224 02068 4 Baby Driver: A Story About Myself by Jan Kerouac. Deutsch, 208 pp., £7.95, August 1982, 0 233 97487 3
Claude Rawson
God’s Grace by Bernard Malamud. Chatto, 223 pp., £6.95, October 1982, 0 7011 2647 7
Robert Neild
A Policy for Peace by Field-Marshal Lord Carver. Faber, 123 pp., £5.95, September 1982, 0 571 11969 7 The Third World War: The Untold Story by General Sir John Hackett. Sidgwick, 256 pp., £9.95, June 1982, 9780283984495 Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan. Cape, 395 pp., £8.95, April 1982, 0 224 01541 9
Barry Supple
The 1982 Budget edited by John Kay. Blackwell, 147 pp., £10, July 1982, 0 631 13153 1 Money and Inflation by Frank Hahn. Blackwell, 116 pp., £7.95, June 1982, 0 631 12917 0 Public Enterprise in Crisis: The Future of the Nationalised Industries by John Redwood. Blackwell, 211 pp., £5.25, May 1982, 0 631 13053 5 Controlling Public Industries by John Redwood and John Hatch. Blackwell, 169 pp., £12, July 1982, 0 631 13078 0
Peter Campbell
Of This Our Time by Tom Hopkinson. Hutchinson, 317 pp., £8.95, April 1982, 9780091478605
Marilyn Butler
The Trouble of an Index: Byron’s Letters and Journals, Vol. XII edited by Leslie Marchand. Murray, 166 pp., £15, May 1982, 0 7195 3885 8 Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals edited by Leslie Marchand. Murray, 404 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 0 7195 3974 9 Byron by Frederic Raphael. Thames and Hudson, 224 pp., £8.95, July 1982, 0 500 01278 4 Byron’s Political and Cultural Influence in 19th-Century Europe: A Symposium edited by Paul Graham Trueblood. Macmillan, 210 pp., £15, April 1981, 0 333 29389 4 Byron and Joyce through Homer by Hermione de Almeida. Macmillan, 233 pp., £15, October 1982, 0 333 30072 6 Byron: A Poet Before His Public by Philip Martin. Cambridge, 253 pp., £18.50, July 1982, 0 521 24186 3
Gavin Ewart
Poem: ‘The Mischievous Boy’
P.N. Furbank
The English World: History, Character and People edited by Robert Blake. Thames and Hudson, 268 pp., £14.95, September 1982, 0 500 25083 9 The English Gentleman: The Rise and Fall of an Ideal by Philip Mason. Deutsch, 240 pp., £9.95, September 1982, 9780233974897
C.H. Sisson
Stranger and Brother: A Portrait of C.P. Snow by Philip Snow. Macmillan, 206 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 0 333 32680 6
A.D. Nuttall
A Rhetoric of the Unreal: Studies in Narrative and Structure, especially of the Fantastic by Christine Brooke-Rose. Cambridge, 380 pp., £25, October 1981, 0 521 22561 2
John Sutherland
Wise Virgin by A.N. Wilson. Secker, 186 pp., £7.50, October 1982, 0 436 57608 2 The London Embassy by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 211 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 241 10872 1 The frog who dared to croak by Richard Sennett. Faber, 182 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 571 11989 1 Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe. Secker, 220 pp., £7.50, November 1982, 0 436 45810 1 Rogue Justice by Geoffrey Household. Joseph, 174 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 7181 2178 3
G. Cabrera Infante
Legacies: Selected Poems by Heberto Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid and Andrew Hurley. Faber, 179 pp., £8.75, September 1982, 0 374 18472 0
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: From Nuclear Bombs to Samuel Johnson
John Brown
Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman. Junction, 285 pp., £9.95, August 1981, 0 86245 027 6
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