Vol. 4 No. 24 · 30 December 1982

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Vol. 4 No. 24 · 30 December 1982

John Bayley

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion
The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

Letters

Pedro Perez Sarduy, Peter Widdowson, D.H. Sexton, Harold Brooks, Jeffrey Meyers

Blake Morrison

Poem: ‘The Grange Boy’

Tom Shippey

Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best, Machines by Martin Amis
Dicing with Dragons: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games by Ian Livingstone

Penelope Gilliatt

Chez Tati

Seamus Deane

Selected Poems by John Montague
Ghosts at my Back by Tom Rawling
A Late Harvest by John Ward

Hugo Williams

Poem: ‘Some Girls by Hugo Williams’

Stephen Bann

Queen of Stones by Emma Tennant
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by William Kotzwinkle, based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison
Tales of Afghanistan by Amina Shah
The Masque of St Eadmundsburg by Humphrey Morrison
A Villa in France by J.I.M. Stewart
Collected Stories: Vol. III by Sean O’Faolain
Work Suspended and Other Stories by Evelyn Waugh

Michael Ignatieff

Trade Unions in British Politics edited by Ben Pimlott
Trade Unions: The Logic of Collective Action by Colin Crouch
Work and Politics: The Division of Labour in Industry by Charles Sabel
Strikes and the Government, 1893-1981 by Eric Wigham
Governments and Trade Unions: The British Experience, 1964-1979 by Dennis Barnes
The Assembly Line by Robert Linhart, translated by Margaret Crosland

A.W.F. Edwards

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

D.A.N. Jones

On Going to Bed by Anthony Burgess
The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess
This Man and Music by Anthony Burgess

Hans Keller

Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence, Vol. I edited by Robert Craft
Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress by Paul Griffiths, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft and Gabriel Josipovici

Philip Booth

Stravinsky Seen and Heard by Hans Keller and Milein Cosman
Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music by Léonie Rosenstiel

Nicholas Spice

Richard Strauss: A Chronicle of the Early Years 1864-1898 by Willi Schuh, translated by Mary Whitall

Misha Donat

Carl Maria von Weber: Writings on Music edited by John Warrack, translated by Martin Cooper

Patrick Carnegy

Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz by Peter Raby
Mazeppa: The Lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken by Wolf Mankowitz

A.J.P. Taylor

Diary: Death of a Historian

Penelope Fitzgerald

Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner 
The Portrait of a Tortoise by Gilbert White and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems edited by Claire Harman
Scenes of Childhood and Other Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner

John Dunn

The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution by J.L. Talmon

Martin Elliott

Story: ‘Having taken off my wheels’

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