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Vol. 5 No. 22 · 1 December 1983
Christopher Ricks
Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley 1933-1980 by Nicholas Mosley. Secker, 323 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 436 28852 4 Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 by Nicholas Mosley. Fontana, 274 pp., £2.50, October 1983, 0 00 636644 9
Letters
Geoffrey Pearson, E.M. Thornton, Michael Neve, Ian Jack
Blake Morrison
Poem: ‘A Child in Winter’
Barbara Wootton
The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. II: All the Good Things in Life edited by Norman Mackenzie and Jeanne Mackenzie. Virago, 376 pp., £18, October 1983, 0 86068 210 2
Jose Harris
John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky. Macmillan, 447 pp., £14.95, November 1983, 0 333 11599 6
Paul Muldoon
Two Poems
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning. Weidenfeld, 430 pp., £12.50, September 1983, 0 297 78306 8
Peter Medawar
The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss. Paul Harris, 304 pp., £15, September 1983, 0 86228 056 7
Roy Harris
A Dictionary of Mottoes by L.G. Pine. Routledge, 303 pp., £9.95, October 1983, 9780710093394 Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon by Jonathon Green. Routledge, 263 pp., £9.95, October 1983, 0 7100 9685 2 The Oxford Miniguide to English Usage by E.S.C. Weiner. Oxford, 412 pp., £1.95, October 1983, 0 19 869127 0 The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English: Volume II by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig. Oxford, 685 pp., £12.50, October 1983, 0 19 431150 3 A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and its Aftermath by Kenneth Hudson. Macmillan, 203 pp., £12.95, October 1983, 0 333 28517 4 A Dictionary of Catch-Phrases by Eric Partridge. Routledge, 278 pp., £5.95, October 1983, 0 7100 9989 4
Graham Hough
Sebastian or Ruling Passions by Lawrence Durrell. Faber, 202 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 571 13445 9 Woman Beware Woman by Emma Tennant. Cape, 176 pp., £7.95, November 1983, 0 224 02164 8 Queen of Stones by Emma Tennant. Picador, 159 pp., £2.50, September 1983, 0 330 28074 0 Blue Rise by Rebecca Hill. Joseph, 296 pp., £8.95, October 1983, 0 7181 2372 7 Here to get my baby out of jail by Louise Shivers. Collins, 141 pp., £6.95, October 1983
Denis Donoghue
The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge. Vol. I: 1871-1907 edited by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford, 385 pp., £30, August 1983, 0 19 812678 6
Samuel Hynes
Roy Campbell: A Critical Biography by Peter Alexander. Oxford, 277 pp., £12.50, March 1981, 0 19 211750 5 The Selected Poems of Roy Campbell edited by Peter Alexander. Oxford, 131 pp., £7.50, July 1982, 9780192119469
J.I.M. Stewart
Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson edited by Kerry McSweeny. Secker, 303 pp., £15, August 1983, 0 436 57610 4
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson and Sally Beauman. Virago, 543 pp., £3.95, November 1982, 0 86068 300 1 The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Anita Brookner. Virago, 326 pp., £3.50, August 1983, 0 86068 354 0 The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy 1896-1967 by Violet Powell. Heinemann, 219 pp., £10.95, June 1983, 0 434 59951 4
Michael Neve
Out of Order by Frank Johnson. Robson, 256 pp., £7.95, October 1982, 0 86051 190 1 Frank Johnson’s Election Year by Frank Johnson. Robson, 192 pp., £6.95, October 1983, 0 86051 254 1 Enthusiasms by Bernard Levin. Cape, 264 pp., £8.95, November 1983, 0 224 02114 1 Poem of the Year by Clive James. Cape, 79 pp., £4.95, November 1983, 0 224 02961 4 The Original Michael Frayn by Michael Frayn. Salamander, 203 pp., £8.50, October 1983, 0 907540 32 5
Martin Kemp
Collected Essays: Vols I and II by Frances Yates. Routledge, 279 pp., £12.50, May 1982, 0 7100 0952 6
John Hedley Brooke
Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould. Norton, 413 pp., £11.95, September 1983, 0 393 01716 8 The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology, 1814-1849 by Nicolaas Rupke. Oxford, 322 pp., £22.50, September 1983, 0 19 822907 0
William Boyd
The Africans by David Lamb. Bodley Head, 363 pp., £12.50, August 1983, 0 370 30968 5 African Princess by Princess Elizabeth of Toro. Hamish Hamilton, 230 pp., £9.95, September 1983, 0 241 11002 5 The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowsa-Brand. Quartet, 164 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 7043 2415 6
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: Books are getting too long
Philip Horne
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius by Donald Spoto. Collins, 594 pp., £12.95, May 1983, 0 00 216352 7 Howard Hawks, Storyteller by Gerald Mast. Oxford, 406 pp., £16.50, June 1983, 0 19 503091 5
E.S. Turner
Just William, More William, William Again, William the Fourth by Richmal Crompton and Thomas Henry. Macmillan, 215 pp., £5.95, October 1983, 0 333 35848 1
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