Vol. 6 No. 24 · 20 December 1984

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Vol. 6 No. 24 · 20 December 1984

Neal Ascherson

James Boswell: The Later Years 1769-1795 by Frank Brady

Letters

Joseph Rykwert, Ursula Owen, Arturo Escobosa, Redactor, ‘London Review of Books’, Katy Nicholson

Irvin Ehrenpreis

Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
A Preliminary Handlist of Copies of Books Associated with Dr Samuel Johnson by J.D. Fleeman
Samuel Johnson 1709-84: A Bicentenary Exhibition edited by K.K. Yung
Samuel Johnson by Donald Greene

Peter Porter

Three Poems

Denis Donoghue

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Facsimile Edition by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, edited by Bernard Crick
Inside the Myth. Orwell: Views from the Left edited by Christopher Norris
The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell by George Woodcock
Orwell’s London by John Thompson

Jose Harris

Neville Chamberlain. Vol. I: 1869-1929 by David Dilks

Michael Stewart

The Castle Diaries. Vol. II: 1964-70 by Barbara Castle

Clive James

Poem: ‘Echo echo echo’

David Allen

The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen by Prudence Leith-Ross
Sydney Parkinson: Artist of Cook’s ‘Endeavour’ Voyage edited by D.J. Carr

Patricia Craig

The man who was M: The Life of Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters
Unreliable Witness: Espionage Myths of the Second World War by Nigel West
The Great Betrayal: The Untold Story of Kim Philby’s Biggest Coup by Nicholas Bethell

Peter Jenkins

Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrad, translated by Richard Allen

Alok Rai

Indira’s India

Gabriele Annan

The Ledge between the Streams by Ved Mehta

Peter Gwyn

Reformation and Revolution 1558-1660 by Robert Ashton
The Reformation and the English People by J.J. Scarisbrick

Arnold Davidson

Themes out of School: Causes and Effects by Stanley Cavell

D.A.N. Jones

Last Ferry to Manly by Jill Neville
Down from the Hill by Alan Sillitoe
God Knows by Joseph Heller
Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe

Susannah Clapp

Charlotte Mew and her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. Vol. I: 1903-17 edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott

Alan Bennett

Diary: What I did in 1984

Michael Neve

A Darker Shade of Pale: A Backdrop to Bob Dylan by Wilfrid Mellers
Dylan by Jonathan Cott

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