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Vol. 9 No. 20 · 12 November 1987
Craig Raine
More die of heartbreak by Saul Bellow. Alison Press/Secker, 335 pp., £10.95, October 1987, 0 436 03962 1
Letters
John Worthen, Nicolas Walter, Alan Brien, D.A.N. Jones, Ann Dummett, Paul Hirst, R.W. Johnson, Sarah Lefanu, Mark Hussey, C.A. Latimer
Linda Colley
Women by Naim Attallah. Quartet, 1165 pp., £15, October 1987, 0 7043 2625 6
Jane Miller
Beloved by Toni Morrison. Chatto, 275 pp., £11.95, October 1987, 0 7011 3060 1
Frank Kermode
For Love and Money: Writing, Reading, Travelling 1969-1987 by Jonathan Raban. Collins Harvill, 350 pp., £11.50, November 1987, 0 00 272279 8 Original Copy: Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 by John Carey. Faber, 278 pp., £9.95, August 1987, 0 571 14879 4
James Fox
Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan by Patrick Marnham. Viking, 204 pp., £10.95, October 1987, 0 670 81391 5 Lucan: Not Guilty by Sally Moore. Sidgwick, 271 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 9780283995361
John Sutherland
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan. Berg, 307 pp., £18, November 1986, 0 907582 47 8 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, translated by John Woods. Penguin, 263 pp., £3.95, September 1987, 0 14 009244 7 The Double Bass by Patrick Süskind, translated by Michael Hofmann. Hamish Hamilton, 57 pp., £8.95, September 1987, 9780241120392
Peter Burke
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama. Collins, 698 pp., £19.95, September 1987, 9780002178013
Claude Rawson
Samuel Richardson by Jocelyn Harris. Cambridge, 179 pp., £22.50, February 1987, 0 521 30501 2
Sarah Lawson
Poem: ‘‘Hamlet’’
Selima Hill
Poem: ‘Mother Stone’
Penelope Fitzgerald
Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning. Weidenfeld, 288 pp., £14.95, April 1987, 0 297 79084 6 Family Memories by Rebecca West and Faith Evans. Virago, 255 pp., £14.95, November 1987, 0 86068 741 4
Danny Karlin
The Poems of Tennyson edited by Christopher Ricks. Longman, 662 pp., £40, May 1987, 0 582 49239 4 Tennyson’s ‘Maud’: A Definitive Edition edited by Susan Shatto. Athlone, 296 pp., £28, August 1986, 0 485 11294 9 The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Vol.2: 1851-1870 edited by Cecil Lang and Edgar Shannon. Oxford, 585 pp., £40, May 1987, 0 19 812691 3 The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse edited by Christopher Ricks. Oxford, 654 pp., £15.95, June 1987, 0 19 214154 6
Simon Karlinsky
A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva by Elaine Feinstein. Hutchinson, 287 pp., £15.95, February 1987, 0 09 165900 0 The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva translated by Elaine Feinstein. Hutchinson, 108 pp., £6.95, February 1987, 0 09 165931 0
Julian Barnes
Diary: On the Booker
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Story: ‘Home Place’
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