Vol. 8 No. 20 · 20 November 1986
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Vol. 8 No. 20 · 20 November 1986
Damian Grant
Stalker & Co
Letters
Eric Dunning, Jon Halliday, Craig Raine, Simon Pettifar, Richard Perceval Graves, Kirsten Fischer Lindahl
Jose Harris
Marriage and Morals among the Victorians, and Other Essays by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Faber, 253 pp., £15.95, July 1986, 0 571 13952 3
Paul Foot
Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister by Harold Wilson. Weidenfeld/Joseph, 214 pp., £14.95, October 1986, 0 7181 2775 7
Frank Kermode
The Royal Beasts by William Empson. Chatto, 201 pp., £12.95, November 1986, 0 7011 3084 9 Essays on Shakespeare by William Empson. Cambridge, 246 pp., £25, May 1986, 0 521 25577 5
Alison Brackenbury
Poem: ‘Grace’
Blake Morrison
Acrimony by Michael Hofmann. Faber, 79 pp., £8.95, October 1986, 0 571 14527 2 Idols by Stephen Romer. Oxford, 48 pp., £3.95, September 1986, 0 19 281984 4 Opia by Alan Moore. Anvil, 83 pp., £4.50, August 1986, 9780856461613 New Chatto Poets edited by Andrew Motion. Chatto, 79 pp., £4.95, September 1986, 0 7011 3080 6 A.D. Hope: Selected Poems edited by Ruth Morse. Carcanet, 139 pp., £3.95, April 1986, 0 85635 640 9 The Electrification of the Soviet Union by Craig Raine. Faber, 69 pp., £8.95, August 1986, 0 571 14539 6
D.A.N. Jones
Bowie by Jerry Hopkins. Elm Tree, 275 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 241 11548 5 Alias David Bowie by Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman. Hodder, 511 pp., £16.95, September 1986, 0 340 36806 3
Patrick Parrinder
The Injured Party by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. Hamish Hamilton, 309 pp., £10.95, November 1986, 0 241 11946 4 Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard. Viking, 268 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 670 81291 9
John Sutherland
News from Nowhere by David Caute. Hamish Hamilton, 403 pp., £10.95, September 1986, 0 241 11920 0 O-Zone by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 469 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 241 11948 0 Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter. Faber, 202 pp., £9.95, September 1986, 9780571145232
Rosalind Mitchison
Domesday Economy: A New Approach to Anglo-Norman History by John McDonald and G.D. Snooks. Oxford, 240 pp., £27.50, July 1986, 0 19 828524 8 Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland by R.A. Houston. Cambridge, 352 pp., £27.50, December 1985, 0 521 26598 3 A History of the Highland Clearances. Vol. II: Emigration, Protest, Reasons by Eric Richards. Croom Helm, 543 pp., £25, October 1985, 0 7099 2259 0
Colin Legum
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua by Christopher Dickey. Faber, 327 pp., £12.50, September 1986, 9780571146048 Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa by Fred Bridgland. Mainstream, 513 pp., £14.95, October 1986, 0 906391 99 7
Malcolm Deas
Argentina 1516-1982: From Spanish Colonisation to the Falklands War by David Rock. Tauris, 478 pp., £24.50, May 1986, 1 85043 013 6 A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare by Andrew Graham-Yooll. Eland, 180 pp., £9.95, June 1986, 0 907871 51 8
Edwin Moise
Breakfast with Mao: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent by Alan Winnington. Lawrence and Wishart, 255 pp., £12.50, March 1986, 0 85315 652 2 Behind the Forbidden Door: Travels in China by Tiziano Terzani. Allen and Unwin, 270 pp., £11.95, March 1986, 0 04 951025 8
Rupert Wilkinson
Diary: Harvard '61
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Diary: Two Koreas
John Brooks
Bend’Or, Duke of Westminster: A Personal Memoir by George Ridley. Robin Clark, 213 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 86072 096 9 Getty: The Richest Man in the World by Robert Lenzner. Hutchinson, 283 pp., £9.95, November 1985, 0 09 162840 7
Nicholas Penny
Je suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher. Thames and Hudson, 349 pp., £36, September 1986, 0 500 23461 2 The Musèe Picasso, Paris: Catalogue of the Collections. Paintings, Papiers Collés, Picture Reliefs, Sculptures, Ceramics by Marie-Laure Besnard-Bernadac, Michéle Richet and Hélène Seckel. Thames and Hudson, 315 pp., £25, October 1986, 0 500 23461 2 Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes by Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. Thames and Hudson, 290 pp., £25, October 1986, 0 500 09114 5
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