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Vol. 5 No. 6 · 1 April 1983
W.G. Runciman
The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook: The First Guide to What Really Matters in Life by Ann Barr and Peter York. Ebury, 160 pp., £4.95, October 1982, 0 85223 236 5
Letters
Simon Jenkins, Tam Dalyell, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Emily Prager, Ken Smith, Tom Paulin, Clive James, John Lord
Geoffrey Hawthorn
A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. I: The Methodology of Social Theory by W.G. Runciman. Cambridge, 350 pp., £25, March 1983, 0 521 24906 6
Richard Mayne
The Wheat and the Chaff: The Personal Diaries of the President of France 1971-1978 by François Mitterrand, translated by Richard Woodward, Helen Lane and Concilia Hayter. Weidenfeld, 284 pp., £12.50, October 1982, 0 297 78101 4 The French by Theodore Zeldin. Collins, 542 pp., £12.95, January 1983, 0 00 216806 5
Robert Neild
War Plan UK: The Truth about Civil Defence in Britain by Duncan Campbell. Burnett, 488 pp., £12.95, November 1982, 0 09 150670 0 With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush and Nuclear War by Robert Scheer. Secker, 279 pp., £8.95, February 1983, 0 436 44355 4
R.N. Allan
Poem: ‘Ironbridge’
Jamie McKendrick
Poem: ‘Kitchener’s Bane’
Christopher Hitchens
The Purple Decades by Tom Wolfe. Cape, 396 pp., £8.95, March 1983, 0 224 02944 4
Robert Bernard Martin
Spirit of Wit: Reconsiderations of Rochester edited by Jeremy Treglown. Blackwell, 208 pp., £14, September 1982, 0 631 12897 2
Christopher Driver
Ararat by D.M. Thomas. Gollancz, 191 pp., £6.95, February 1983, 0 575 03247 2
Claude Rawson
‘The Bronze Horseman’ and Other Poems by Alexander Pushkin, translated by D.M. Thomas. Penguin, 261 pp., £2.95, September 1982, 0 14 042309 5 Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study by A.D.P. Briggs. Croom Helm, 257 pp., £14.95, November 1982, 0 7099 0688 9 ‘Choiseul and Talleyrand’: A Historical Novella and Other Poems, with New Verse Translations of Alexander Pushkin by Charles Johnston. Bodley Head, 88 pp., £5.25, July 1982, 0 370 30924 3 Mozart and Salieri: The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Antony Wood. Angel, 94 pp., £5.95, September 1982, 0 946162 02 6 I have come to greet you by Afanasy Fet, translated by James Greene. Angel, 71 pp., £5.95, September 1982, 0 946162 03 4 Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman. Murray, 81 pp., £4.95, September 1982, 0 7195 3969 2 Travelling without a Valid Ticket by Howard Sergeant. Rivelin, 14 pp., £1, May 1982, 0 904524 39 6
Philip Horne
The Slow Train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Cape, 254 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 224 02077 3 Holy Pictures by Clare Boylan. Hamish Hamilton, 201 pp., £7.95, February 1983, 0 241 10926 4 Pilgermann by Russell Hoban. Cape, 240 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 224 02072 2 September Castle: A Tale of Love by Simon Raven. Blond and Briggs, 261 pp., £7.95, February 1983, 0 85634 123 1 The Watcher by Charles Maclean. Allen Lane, 343 pp., £7.95, March 1983, 0 7139 1559 5 The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré. Hodder, 433 pp., £8.95, March 1983, 0 340 32847 9
Brian O’Shaughnessy
The Character of Mind by Colin McGinn. Oxford, 132 pp., £8.95, October 1982, 0 19 219171 3
Adam Morton
Style and Communication in the English Language by Randolph Quirk. Arnold, 136 pp., £4.95, December 1982, 0 7131 6260 0
D.A.N. Jones
Saturday Night in Darlington
Francis Wyndham
Story: ‘The Ground Hostess’
Frank Kermode
Diary: American Books
Marghanita Laski
Woman in Love
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