Vol. 9 No. 1 · 8 January 1987
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Vol. 9 No. 1 · 8 January 1987
D.A.N. Jones
The Old School: A Study by Simon Raven. Hamish Hamilton, 139 pp., £12, September 1986, 0 241 11929 4 The Best Years of their Lives: The National Service Experience 1945-63 by Trevor Royle. Joseph, 288 pp., £12.95, September 1986, 0 7181 2459 6 Murder without Conviction: Inside the World of the Krays by John Dickson. Sidgwick, 164 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 9780283994074 Inside ‘Private Eye’ by Peter McKay. Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 947795 80 4 Malice in Wonderland: Robert Maxwell v. ‘Private Eye’ by Robert Maxwell, John Jackson, Peter Donnelly and Joe Haines. Macdonald, 191 pp., £10.95, December 1986, 0 356 14616 2
Letters
Peter Parker, Maurice Cowling, Jon Halliday, James Darke, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Chris Peachment, Craig Raine
M.F. Perutz
The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck as Spokesman for German Science by J.L. Heilbron. California, 250 pp., £14.50, July 1986, 0 520 05710 4
Walter Patterson
Red Alert: The Worldwide Dangers of Nuclear Power by Judith Cook. New English Library, 331 pp., £8.95, September 1986, 4 503 99905 2
Edwin Morgan
Poem: ‘Byron at Sixty-Five’
Wayland Kennet
‘Peace’ of the Dead: The Truth behind the Nuclear Disarmers by Paul Mercer. Policy Research Publications, 465 pp., £9.95, November 1986, 0 9511436 0 3
Stephen Haggard
Cambodian Witness: The Autobiography of Someth May edited by James Fenton. Faber, 287 pp., £9.95, November 1986, 0 571 14609 0 The stones cry out: A Cambodian Childhood by Molyda Szymusiak, translated by Linda Coverdale. Cape, 245 pp., £11.95, January 1987, 0 224 02410 8
Penelope Fitzgerald
Alain-Fournier: A Brief Life 1886-1914 by David Arkell. Carcanet, 178 pp., £9.95, November 1986, 0 85635 484 8 Henri Alain-Fournier: Towards the Lost Domain: Letters from London 1905 translated by W.J. Strachan. Carcanet, 222 pp., £16.95, November 1986, 0 85635 674 3 The Lost Domain by Henri Alain-Fournier, translated by Frank Davison. Oxford, 299 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 19 212262 2
Pat Rogers
Laurence Sterne: The Later Years by Arthur Cash. Methuen, 390 pp., £38, September 1986, 0 416 32930 6 Johnson’s Dictionary and the Language of Learning by Robert DeMaria. Oxford, 303 pp., £20, October 1986, 9780198128861
Rosemary Ashton
R.H. Hutton: Critic and Theologian by Malcolm Woodfield. Oxford, 227 pp., £25, September 1986, 0 19 818564 2
David Hoy
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas. Harvard, 261 pp., £14.95, January 1986, 0 674 62435 1
Michael Longley
Five Poems
Norman Page
Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser. Weidenfeld, 410 pp., £14.95, September 1986, 0 297 78895 7 Loving Emma by Nigel Foxell. Harvester, 201 pp., £8.95, March 1986, 0 7108 1056 3
John Bayley
The Master Eccentric: The Journals of Rayner Heppenstall 1969-1981 edited by Jonathan Goodman. Allison and Busby, 278 pp., £14.95, December 1986, 0 85031 536 0 The Pier by Rayner Heppenstall. Allison and Busby, 192 pp., £9.95, December 1986, 9780850314502
Jane Rogers
Ivan: Living with Parkinson’s Disease by Ivan Vaughan and Jonathan Miller. Macmillan, 203 pp., £9.95, November 1986, 0 333 42454 9
Ric Burns
Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins. Heinemann, 508 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 434 14090 2 Letters from Hollywood by Michael Moorcock. Harrap, 232 pp., £10.95, August 1986, 0 245 54379 1 Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden. Secker, 178 pp., £10.95, September 1986, 0 436 27580 5
Mike Selvey
Diary: Jetlagged Cricketers
Christopher Driver
The Railway Station: A Social History by Jeffrey Richards and John MacKenzie. Oxford, 440 pp., £15, April 1986, 0 19 215876 7 The Railways of Britain: A Journey through History by Jack Simmons. Macmillan, 255 pp., £15.95, May 1986, 0 333 40766 0
Gavin Millar
A Life in Movies by Michael Powell. Heinemann, 705 pp., £15.95, October 1986, 9780434599455 All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema edited by Charles Barr. BFI, 446 pp., £12.95, October 1986, 0 85170 179 5
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