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Vol. 6 No. 10 · 7 June 1984
Neal Ascherson
Citizen Ken by John Carvel. Chatto, 240 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 7011 3929 3
Letters
Donald Davie, Charles Martindale, Maurice Punch, Alan Ansen, D.A.N. Jones, Richard Mayne
Iain McGilchrist
The AIDS Epidemic edited by Kevin Cahill. Hutchinson, 175 pp., £3.95, January 1984, 0 09 154921 3 AIDS: Your Questions Answered by Richard Fisher. Gay Men’s Press, 126 pp., £1.95, April 1984, 0 907040 29 2 Fighting for Our Lives by Kit Mouat. Heretic Books, 160 pp., £2.50, April 1984, 0 946097 14 3
Medbh McGuckian
Five Poems
Marilyn Butler
Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis. Hutchinson, 256 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 09 156240 6
Susannah Clapp
A Portrait of Fryn: A Biography of F. Tennyson Jesse by Joanna Colenbrander. Deutsch, 305 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 233 97572 1
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Kept Women: Mistresses in the Eighties by Edna Salamon. Orbis, 182 pp., £8.99, March 1984, 0 85613 606 9
Douglas Johnson
La Cérémonie des Adieux by Simone de Beauvoir. Gallimard, 559 pp., frs 90Simone de Beauvoir Today by Alice Schwarzer, translated by Marianne Howarth. Chatto, 120 pp., £6.95, February 1984, 0 7011 2784 8 Lettres au Castor et à Quelques Autres by Jean-Paul Sartre, edited by Simone de Beauvoir. Gallimard, 520 pp., frs 120, May 1983, 9782070260782
Mary Midgley
The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan. Routledge, 425 pp., £17.95, January 1984, 0 7102 0150 8 Rights, Killing and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics by R.G. Frey. Blackwell, 256 pp., £17.50, September 1983, 0 631 12684 8
Bernard Williams
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit. Oxford, 543 pp., £17.50, April 1984, 0 19 824615 3
Ian Gilmour
Another Heart and Other Pulses: The Alternative to the Thatcher Society by Michael Foot. Collins, 220 pp., £8.95, June 1984, 0 00 217256 9
Blair Worden
The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in 17th-Century England by Antonia Fraser. Weidenfeld, 544 pp., £12.95, May 1984, 0 297 78381 5 Family Life in the 17th Century: The Verneys of Claydon House by Miriam Slater. Routledge, 209 pp., £10.50, March 1984, 0 7100 9477 9
J.I.M. Stewart
Hilaire Belloc by A.N. Wilson. Hamish Hamilton, 398 pp., £12.95, April 1984, 0 241 11176 5
John Bayley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Henry Heim. Faber, 314 pp., £9.50, May 1984, 9780571132096
John Sutherland
The Place of Dead Roads by William Burroughs. Calder, 306 pp., £9.95, April 1984, 0 7145 4030 7 Angels by Denis Johnson. Chatto, 209 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 7011 2777 5 Moll Cutpurse: Her True History by Ellen Galford. Stramullion, 221 pp., £4.50, May 1984, 0 907343 03 1
Peter Campbell
English Journey by J.B. Priestley. Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 434 60371 6 English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge. Duckworth/BBC, 158 pp., £7.95, March 1984, 0 563 20299 8 Crisis and Conservation: Conflict in the British Countryside by Charlie Pye-Smith and Chris Rose. Penguin, 213 pp., £3.95, March 1984, 0 14 022437 8 Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland by James Campbell. Weidenfeld, 164 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 297 78371 8 Literary Britain by Bill Brandt. Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 184 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 905209 66 4
Charles Osborne
Diary: Arts Council Subsidies
Gabriele Annan
Milady Vine: The Autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild edited by Joan Littlewood. Cape, 247 pp., £10.95, June 1984, 0 224 02208 3 I meant to marry him: A Personal Memoir by Jean MacGibbon. Gollancz, 182 pp., £10.95, May 1984, 0 575 03412 2
Michael Church
Growing Up by Russell Baker. Sidgwick, 278 pp., £9.95, February 1984, 0 283 99056 2 Scouse Mouse, or I never got over it: An Autobiography by George Melly. Weidenfeld, 208 pp., £8.95, March 1984, 0 297 78277 0 The Haunted Mind by Hallam Tennyson. Deutsch, 238 pp., £12.95, May 1984, 0 233 97618 3
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