Vol. 8 No. 15 · 4 September 1986
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Vol. 8 No. 15 · 4 September 1986
E.S. Turner
Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 by Nigel Hamilton. Hamish Hamilton, 996 pp., £15, June 1986, 0 241 11838 7
Letters
Paul Mercer, R.W. Johnson, Barbara Simon, Frank Kermode, Craig Raine, Joseph Pequigney, Neville Smith, A.J. Ayer, Richard Bowring
Peter Pulzer
Little Germany: Exile and Asylum in Victorian England by Rosemary Ashton. Oxford, 304 pp., £17.50, July 1986, 0 19 212239 8
E.P. Thompson
26 July 1987, Court of Appeal: the Public Interest v. the Interested Public, Ex parte the Fourth Estate
Michael Davie
The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 by Gough Whitlam. Viking, 788 pp., £17.95, July 1986, 0 670 80287 5
A.D. Hope
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature by William Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews. Oxford, 740 pp., £30, June 1986, 0 19 554233 9
John Passmore
Australian Realism: The Systematic Philosophy of John Anderson by A.J. Baker. Cambridge, 150 pp., £20, April 1986, 0 521 32051 8
Peter Porter
Poem: ‘Spiderwise’
C.K. Stead
Ocean of Story: The Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead edited by R.G. Geering. Viking, 552 pp., £12.95, April 1986, 0 670 80996 9 The Salzburg Tales by Christina Stead.498 pp., £4.95, September 1986, 0 86068 691 4
Fleur Adcock
Poem: ‘Central Time’
Nicholas Penny
Faith in Fakes by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver. Secker, 307 pp., £15, August 1986, 0 436 14088 8 Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco, translated by Hugh Bredin. Yale, 131 pp., £6.95, September 1986, 0 300 03676 0
Christopher Norris
On Signs: A Semiotics Reader edited by Marshall Blonsky. Blackwell, 536 pp., £27.50, September 1985, 0 631 10261 2
Brian Pippard
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World by Abraham Pais. Oxford, 666 pp., £20, May 1986, 0 19 851971 0
John Ziman
Bird of Passage: Recollections of a Physicist by Rudolf Peierls. Princeton, 350 pp., £21.20, January 1986, 0 691 08390 8 A Life in Science by Nevill Mott. Taylor and Francis, 198 pp., £15, April 1986, 0 85066 333 4 Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith. Collins Harvill, 287 pp., £10.95, May 1986, 0 00 222727 4 Day of the Bomb: Hiroshima 1945 by Dan Kurzman. Weidenfeld, 546 pp., £14.95, February 1986, 0 297 78862 0 Assessing the Nuclear Age edited by Len Ackland and Steven McGuire. Chicago, 382 pp., £21.25, July 1986, 0 941682 07 2
Richard Eyre
Stage Fright: Its Role in Acting by Stephen Aaron. Chicago, 156 pp., £13.95, July 1986, 0 226 00018 4
John Bayley
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym. Macmillan, 182 pp., £9.95, July 1986, 0 333 41843 3 A Misalliance by Anita Brookner. Cape, 191 pp., £9.95, August 1986, 0 224 02403 5
Colin McGinn
Diary: A Philosopher in LA
Nicholas Spice
A Simple Story by S.Y. Agnon, translated by Hillel Halkin.246 pp., £13.10, March 1986, 0 8052 3999 5 At the Handles of the Lock: Themes in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon by David Aberbach. Oxford, 221 pp., £18, November 1984, 0 19 710040 6 Snakewrist by Christopher Burns. Cape, 240 pp., £9.95, July 1986, 0 224 02351 9
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