Vol. 10 No. 1 · 7 January 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 1 · 7 January 1988
Bryan Gould
What Labour must do
Letters
Les Murray, Roger Scruton, Ray Honeyford, S.J.D. Green, Ann Dummett, Hilary Wainwright, Shlomo Avineri, John Bayley, Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Dipple, Gavin Ewart, Andrew Motion
Geoffrey Hawthorn
Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era by Peter Jenkins. Cape, 411 pp., £12.95, November 1988, 0 224 02516 3 De-Industrialisation and Foreign Trade by R.E. Rowthorn and J.R. Wells. Cambridge, 422 pp., £40, November 1988, 0 521 26360 3
E.S. Turner
A Class Society at War: England 1914-18 by Bernard Waites. Berg, 303 pp., £25, November 1987, 0 907582 65 6 Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard. Routledge, 201 pp., £19.95, November 1987, 0 7102 0974 6 The Countryside at War 1914-18 by Caroline Dakers. Constable, 238 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 0 09 468060 4 When Jim Crow met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War Two Britain by Graham Smith. Tauris, 265 pp., £14.95, November 1987, 9781850430391
Michael Howard
The Mask of Command by John Keegan. Cape, 366 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 9780224019491
J.M. Winter
New Life on the West Bank
Swee Chai Ang
Bilal and Samir
Alan Brinkley
Armed Truce by Hugh Thomas. Hamish Hamilton, 667 pp., £14.95, November 1986, 0 241 11843 3 The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. Faber, 853 pp., £15.95, January 1987, 0 571 14606 6 Ike by Piers Brendon. Secker, 478 pp., £12.95, January 1987, 0 436 06813 3 May-Day by Michael Beschloss. Faber, 494 pp., £14.95, November 1986, 0 571 14593 0
Allen Curnow
Poem: ‘A Time of Day’
Tom Shippey
The Sea and Summer by George Turner. Faber, 318 pp., £10.95, August 1987, 0 571 14846 8 The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock. Grafton, 283 pp., £10.95, July 1987, 0 246 13129 2 Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. Deutsch, 322 pp., £11.95, August 1987, 0 233 98141 1
John Bayley
The Collected Stories of Angus Wilson Secker, 414 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 0 436 57612 0
Patrick Maynard
Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane by Michael Fried. Chicago, 215 pp., £23.95, April 1987, 0 226 26210 3 Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W.J.T. Mitchell. Chicago, 226 pp., £7.25, October 1987, 0 226 53229 1
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel. Collins, 740 pp., £25, July 1987, 0 00 217870 2 The Complete Notebooks of Henry James edited by Leon Edel and Lyall Powers. Oxford, 662 pp., £25, March 1987, 0 19 503782 0
W.C. Spengemann
Look homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald. Bloomsbury, 579 pp., £16.95, April 1987, 0 7475 0004 5 From this moment on: America in 1940 by Jeffrey Hart. Crown, 352 pp., $19.95, February 1987, 9780517557419
Paul Foot
Diary: Disaster Woman
Walter Nash
The World’s Major Languages edited by Bernard Comrie. Croom Helm, 1025 pp., £50, March 1988, 9780709932437 Studies in Lexicography edited by Robert Burchfield. Oxford, 200 pp., £27.50, April 1988, 0 19 811945 3 Van Winkle’s Return: Change in American English 1966-1986 by Kenneth Wilson. University Press of New England, 193 pp., £7.95, August 1988, 0 87451 394 4 Words at Work: Lectures on Textual Structure by Randolph Quirk. Longman, 137 pp., £5.75, March 1988, 9780582001206 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal. Cambridge, 472 pp., £25, November 1988, 0 521 26438 3
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