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Vol. 7 No. 15 · 5 September 1985
Peter Pulzer
The Decline of Power: 1915-1964 by Robert Blake. Granada, 462 pp., £18, June 1985, 0 246 10753 7
Letters
Jenny Koralek, Francis Scarfe, Jim Porteous, Martin Dodsworth, Michael Longley, John Cronquist, Rupert Lancaster, John Spiers, Paul Collins, Nicholas Penny, René Olivieri
William Boyd
The Randlords: The Men who made South Africa by Geoffrey Wheatcroft. Weidenfeld, 314 pp., £12.95, July 1985, 0 297 78437 4
Angus Calder
Angus Calder, a visitor to Uganda in June, gives his impressions of the life he found in Kampala on the eve of the country’s latest coup
David Craig
Climbing
Patricia Craig
Ascendancy and Tradition in Anglo-Irish Literary History from 1789 to 1939 by W.J. McCormack. Oxford, 423 pp., £27.50, June 1985, 0 19 812806 1 Across a Roaring Hill edited by Gerald Dawe and Edna Longley. Blackstaff, 258 pp., £10.95, July 1985, 0 85640 334 2 Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980 by Seamus Deane. Faber, 199 pp., £15, July 1985, 0 571 13500 5 Escape from the Anthill by Hubert Butler. Lilliput, 342 pp., £12, May 1985, 0 946640 00 9
Walter Kendrick
The Confessions of Victor X edited by Donald Rayfield. Caliban, 143 pp., £7.95, October 1984, 9780904573947 Novel with Cocaine by M. Ageyev, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Picador, 174 pp., £7.95, February 1985, 0 330 28574 2
Raleigh Trevelyan
Two Ediths and a Hermit
Frank Kermode
Family and Friends by Anita Brookner. Cape, 187 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 224 02337 3
Michael Church
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto. Bodley Head, 409 pp., £12.95, May 1985, 0 370 30847 6 Tennessee Williams on File by Catherine Arnott. Methuen, 80 pp., £7.95, May 1985, 0 413 58550 6
Karl Miller
The Old Forest by Peter Taylor. Chatto, 358 pp., £9.95, August 1985, 0 7011 3967 6
Oliver Reynolds
Poem: ‘One would think the deep to be hoary’
John Sutherland
Glitz by Elmore Leonard. Viking, 251 pp., £8.95, July 1985, 0 670 80571 8 LaBrava by Elmore Leonard. Penguin, 283 pp., £2.50, July 1985, 0 14 007238 1 Stick by Elmore Leonard. Penguin, 304 pp., £2.50, August 1985, 0 14 007083 4 The Hunting Season by J.K. Mayo. Collins, 253 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 00 222783 5
Lachlan Mackinnon
Poem: ‘Seventy-Second Air Force’
T.M. Scanlon
Morality and Conflict by Stuart Hampshire. Blackwell, 175 pp., £18.50, September 1984, 0 631 13336 4 Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer. Blackwell, 343 pp., £15, September 1984, 0 631 14063 8
Paul Seabright
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams. Collins and Fontana, 230 pp., £10.95, March 1985, 0 00 197171 9
Colin McGinn
Essays on Davidson: Actions and Events edited by Bruce Vermazen and Merrill Hintikka. Oxford, 257 pp., £20, January 1985, 0 19 824749 4
Stuart Hampshire
Spinoza by R.J. Delahunty. Routledge, 317 pp., £25, May 1985, 0 7102 0375 6
A.J.P. Taylor
Diary: A New Carl
Conrad Russell
The Restoration: A Political and Religious History of England and Wales 1658-1667 by Ronald Hutton. Oxford, 379 pp., £17.50, June 1985, 0 19 822698 5
Michael Stewart
Crowded Hours by Eric Roll. Faber, 254 pp., £15, July 1985, 0 571 13497 1
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