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Vol. 7 No. 21 · 5 December 1985

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Vol. 7 No. 21 · 5 December 1985

John Bayley

Tolstoy’s Diaries translated by R.F. Christian
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy translated by Cathy Porter

Letters

C.K. Stead, John Lucas, D.H. Schwartz

Frank Kermode

Collected Poems 1928-1985 by Stephen Spender
A Version of the Oedipus Trilogy of Sophocles by Stephen Spender
Journals 1939-1983 by Stephen Spender, edited by John Goldsmith

Tam Dalyell

An Eton Schoolboy’s Album by Mark Dixon

Noël Annan

Leaves from a Victorian Diary by Edward Leeves and John Sparrow

Ian Hamilton

The Diaries of Auberon Waugh: A Turbulent Decade 1976-1985 edited by Anna Galli-Pahlavi

Craig Raine

Poem: ‘For Hans Keller’

Hugh Haughton

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy, edited by Michael Millgate
The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy: Vols I and II edited by Lennart Björk
Emma Hardy’s Diaries edited by Richard Taylor
The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Vol. V: 1914-1919 edited by Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate
The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, Vol. III edited by Samuel Hynes
Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England 1660-1900 by K.D.M. Snell
Thomas Hardy edited by Samuel Hynes

Blake Morrison

No Mate for the Magpie by Frances Molloy
The Mysteries by Tony Harrison
Ukulele Music by Peter Reading
Hard Lines 2 edited by Ian Dury, Pete Townshend, Alan Bleasdale and Fanny Dubes
No Holds Barred: The Raving Beauties choose new poems by women edited by Anna Carteret, Fanny Viner and Sue Jones-Davies
Katerina Brac by Christopher Reid
Skevington’s Daughter by Oliver Reynolds
Rhondda Tenpenn’orth by Oliver Reynolds
Trio 4 by Andrew Elliott, Leon McAuley and Ciaran O’Driscoll
Mama Dot by Fred D’Aguiar
The Dread Affair: Collected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah
Long Road to Nowhere by Amryl Johnson
Mangoes and Bullets by John Agard
Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars by Ron Butlin
True Confessions and New Clichés by Liz Lochhead
Works in the Inglis Tongue by Peter Davidson
Wild Places: Poems in Three Leids by William Neill

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Lost Children: The Story of Adopted Children Searching for their Mothers by Polly Toynbee

Angela Carter

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity by Elizabeth Wilson

Peter Campbell

Adrian

N.V. Rampant

Poem: ‘Symptoms of Self-Regard’

Alan Brien

Orson Welles by Barbara Leaming
The Making of ‘Citizen Kane’ by Robert Carringer
Spike Milligan by Pauline Scudamore
Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
Rebel: The Short Life of Esmond Romilly by Kevin Ingram
The Mitford Family Album by Sophia Murphy

Robert Morley

Blessings in Disguise by Alec Guinness

Patrick Parrinder

Life goes on by Alan Sillitoe
Men and Angels by Mary Gordon
Heavenly Deception by Maggie Brooks
Love Always by Ann Beattie

Patricia Craig

Black Venus by Angela Carter
Come unto these yellow sands by Angela Carter
Mainland by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Arrows of Longing by Virginia Moriconi

Alan Bennett

Diary: What I did in 1985

T.D. Armstrong

To the Is-Land: An Autobiography by Janet Frame
An Angel at My Table. An Autobiography: Vol. II by Janet Frame
The Envoy from Mirror City. An Autobiography: Vol. III by Janet Frame
You are now entering the human heart by Janet Frame
Conversation in a Train by Frank Sargeson

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