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Vol. 8 No. 11 · 19 June 1986
David Gilmour
The Siege: The Saga of Zionism and Israel by Conor Cruise O’Brien. Weidenfeld, 798 pp., £20, May 1986, 0 297 78393 9
Letters
C.K. Stead, Adrian Room, The ‘Rising Sun’
Stephen Greenblatt
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith Brown. Oxford, 214 pp., £12.50, January 1986, 0 19 503675 1
Patrick Wormald
Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066 by Christine Fell, Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams. British Museum/Blackwell, 208 pp., £15, April 1984, 0 7141 8057 2
Christopher Driver
All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present by Stephen Mennell. Blackwell, 380 pp., £14.95, October 1985, 0 631 13244 9 Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the 14th Century including ‘The Forme of Cury’ edited by Constance Hieatt and Sharon Butler. Oxford, for the Early English Text Society, 224 pp., £6.50, April 1985, 0 19 722409 1 The English Cookbook by Victor Gordon. Cape, 304 pp., £12.50, November 1985, 0 224 02300 4
Carolyn Steedman
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity by Kim Chernin. Virago, 213 pp., £3.95, May 1986, 0 86068 746 5 Hunger Strike by Susie Orbach. Faber, 201 pp., £9.95, February 1986, 0 571 13682 6 Holy Anorexia by Rudolph Bell. Chicago, 248 pp., £18.95, January 1986, 0 226 04204 9
Malise Ruthven
Gertrude Bell by Susan Goodman. Berg, 122 pp., £8.95, November 1985, 0 907582 86 9 Freya Stark by Caroline Moorehead. Viking, 144 pp., £7.95, October 1985, 0 670 80675 7
Chauncey Loomis
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez. Macmillan, 464 pp., £14.95, May 1986, 0 333 42244 9
Ian Jack
A North Sea Journey by A. Alvarez. Hodder, 191 pp., £9.95, May 1986, 0 340 37347 4
Stuart Hampshire
The Time of My Life: An Autobiography by W.V. Quine. MIT, 499 pp., £21.50, September 1985, 0 262 17003 5
Lucy Anne Watt
Poem: ‘In the Lavatories’
John Bayley
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Vol. II: The Tender Passion by Peter Gay. Oxford, 490 pp., £19.50, June 1986, 0 19 503741 3
Richard Altick
The Common Writer: Life in 19th-century Grub Street by Nigel Cross. Cambridge, 265 pp., £25, September 1985, 0 521 24564 8
Brian Harrison
The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form 1832-1867 by Catherine Gallagher. Chicago, 320 pp., £23.25, September 1985, 0 226 27932 4 Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography 1830-1914 by Philip Priestley. Methuen, 311 pp., £14.85, October 1985, 0 416 34770 3 The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers and Vivisection in Edwardian England by Coral Lansbury. University of Wisconsin Press, 212 pp., £23.50, November 1985, 0 299 10250 5 ‘Orator’ Hunt: Henry Hunt and English Working-Class Radicalism by John Belchem. Oxford, 304 pp., £25, October 1985, 0 19 822759 0
John Sutherland
The Old Gringo translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and Carlos Fuentes, by Carlos Fuentes. Deutsch, 199 pp., £8.95, May 1986, 0 233 97862 3 Where the air is clear by Carlos Fuentes, translated by Sam Hileman. Deutsch, 376 pp., £4.95, June 1986, 0 233 97937 9 Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Andrew Hurley. Viking, 412 pp., £12.95, May 1986, 0 670 52960 5 Digging up the mountains by Neil Bissoondath. Deutsch, 247 pp., £8.95, May 1986, 0 233 97851 8
Ian Davidson
Gorbachev: The Path to Power by Christian Schmidt-Häuer. Tauris, 218 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 1 85043 015 2 Gorbachev by Zhores Medvedev. Blackwell, 272 pp., £15, March 1986, 0 631 14782 9 The Soviet Union: The Incomplete Super-Power by Paul Dibb. Macmillan, 320 pp., £27.50, February 1986, 0 333 36281 0
John Yandell
Diary: English Lessons
Ted Hughes
Poem: ‘Climbing into Heptonstall’
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