Vol. 7 No. 20 · 21 November 1985
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Vol. 7 No. 20 · 21 November 1985
Peter Jenkins
How Britain votes by Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice. Pergamon, 251 pp., £15.50, September 1985, 0 08 031859 2 Partnership of Principle by Roy Jenkins. Secker in association with the Radical Centre, 169 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 436 22100 4 The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Britain by Ian Bradley. Chatto, 259 pp., £11.95, September 1985, 0 7011 2670 1 Report from the Select Committee on Overseas Trade, House of Lords HMSO, 96 pp., £6.30, October 1985, 0 10 496285 2
Letters
Terence Hawkes, Richard Wollheim, William LeFanu, Patricia Craig, Ian Hamilton, John May
Julian Critchley
Carrington: A Life and a Policy by Patrick Cosgrave. Dent, 182 pp., £10.95, October 1985, 0 460 04691 8 Thatcher: The First Term by Patrick Cosgrave. Bodley Head, 240 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 370 30602 3 Viva Britannia: Mrs Thatcher’s Britain by Paolo Filo della Torre. Sidgwick, 101 pp., £9.95, October 1985, 0 283 99143 7
John Lloyd
The Miners’ Strike by Geoffrey Goodman. Pluto, 213 pp., £4.50, September 1985, 0 7453 0073 1 Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the Miners by Peter Wilsher, Donald Macintyre and Michael Jones. Deutsch, 284 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 233 97825 9
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Capitalism and Social Democracy by Adam Przeworksi. Cambridge, 269 pp., £25, May 1985, 0 521 26742 0
Peter Riddell
The New Select Committees: A Study of the 1979 Reforms edited by Gavin Drewry. Oxford, 410 pp., £25, September 1985, 9780198227854 Commons Select Committees: Catalysts for Progress? edited by Dermot Englefield. Longman, 288 pp., £15, May 1984, 0 582 90260 6 British Government and the Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials by Colin Turpin. Weidenfeld, 476 pp., £25, September 1985, 0 297 78651 2 Parliament in the 1980s edited by Philip Norton. Blackwell, 208 pp., £19.50, July 1985, 0 631 14056 5
David Caute
Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe by Terence Ranger. James Currey, 377 pp., £25, October 1985, 0 85255 000 6 Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe by David Lan. James Currey, 244 pp., £19.50, October 1985, 0 85255 200 9
Paul Kennedy
No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909 by Alfred Gollin. Heinemann, 468 pp., £18, October 1984, 0 434 29902 2
John Pym
Money into Light by John Boorman. Faber, 241 pp., £4.95, September 1985, 0 571 13731 8
Sarah Maguire
Poem: ‘Spilt Milk’
Nell Dunn
Everything to lose: Diaries 1945-1960 by Frances Partridge. Gollancz, 383 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 575 03549 8
D.A.N. Jones
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth. Cape, 89 pp., £5.95, October 1985, 0 224 02815 4 Loyalties by Raymond Williams. Chatto, 378 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 7011 2843 7 Cousin Rosamund by Rebecca West. Macmillan, 295 pp., £9.95, October 1985, 0 333 39797 5 The Battle of Pollocks Crossing by J.L. Carr. Viking, 176 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 670 80559 9 The Bone People by Keri Hulme. Hodder, 450 pp., £9.95, July 1985, 0 340 37024 6
Raymond Williams
By the Open Sea by August Strindberg, translated by Mary Sandbach. Secker, 193 pp., £8.95, October 1984, 0 436 50008 6 August Strindberg by Olof Lagercrantz, translated by Anselm Hollo. Faber, 399 pp., £20, September 1984, 0 571 11812 7 Strindberg: A Biography by Michael Meyer. Secker, 651 pp., £25, October 1985, 0 436 27852 9
Edward Said
The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway. Hamish Hamilton, 150 pp., £9.95, June 1985, 0 241 11521 3
Christopher Ricks
Gentlemen in England by A.N. Wilson. Hamish Hamilton, 311 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 02 411165 1
Carol Singh
Diary: While Britain Burns
Nicholas Penny
Patterns of Intention by Michael Baxandall. Yale, 148 pp., £12.50, September 1985, 0 300 03465 2 The Enigma of Piero by Carlo Ginzburg, translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper. Verso, 164 pp., £12.95, November 1985, 0 86091 116 0
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