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Vol. 8 No. 16 · 18 September 1986

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Vol. 8 No. 16 · 18 September 1986

Paul Foot

Error of Judgment: The Truth about the Birmingham Bombings by Chris Mullin

Letters

Isobel Grundy, George Bernard, David Norbrook, Bella Millett, Lesley Hall, Steven and Julie Ross, Alan Brien, Trevor Burridge, Bastiaan Bommeljé, T.H. Turner, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Catherine Peters, Cecil Lang

Thomas Nagel

Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin

Karl Miller

In Search of a Past: The Manor House, Amnersfield 1933-1945 by Ronald Fraser
Growing up in the Gorbals by Ralph Glasser

Patrick Wright

The Infant and the Pearl by Douglas Oliver

Christopher Reid

A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by Donald Prater
Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva and Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Yevgeny Pasternak and Yelena Pasternak

John Bayley

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Poem: ‘Virtuous Women’

John Sutherland

Redback by Howard Jacobson
Coming from behind by Howard Jacobson
Peeping Tom by Howard Jacobson

D.A.N. Jones

Search Sweet Country by B. Kojo Laing
The Jewel Maker by Tom Gallagher
The Pianoplayers by Anthony Burgess
An After-Dinner’s Sleep by Stanley Middleton
Coming Home by Mervyn Jones

J.I.M. Stewart

G.K. Chesterton by Michael Ffinch

V.G. Kiernan

What’s happening to India: Punjab, Ethnic Conflict, Mrs Gandhi’s Death and the Test for Federalism by Robin Jeffrey
Lions of the Punjab: Culture in the Making by Richard Fox

Angela Carter

A Land Apart: A South African Reader edited by André Brink and J.M. Coetzee
Where Sixpence lives by Norma Kitson

Douglas Johnson

De Gaulle. Vol. I: Le Rebelle by Jean Lacouture
De Gaulle. Vol. II: Le Politique by Jean Lacouture
Charles de Gaulle: A Biography by Don Cook
Jean Moulin et le Conseil National de la Résistance 
De Gaulle et la nation face aux problèmes de défense 1945-1946 
De Gaulle by Sam White

Robin Chapman

Don Quixote by E.C. Riley
Don Quixote – which was a dream by Kathy Acker

Tam Dalyell

Diary: Yesterday’s News

Paul Edwards

The Madhouse by Alexander Zinoviev, translated by Michael Kirkwood
Judith by Nicholas Mosley
Missing Persons by David Cook
Only by Mistake by P.J. Kavanagh

Ronald Gaskell

Poem: ‘The Seine at Asnières’

Stephen Fender

Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright

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