Vol. 10 No. 9 · 5 May 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 9 · 5 May 1988
Stephen Sedley
A Matter of Justice: The Legal System in Ferment by Michael Zander. Tauris, 323 pp., £16.50, February 1988, 1 85043 040 3 The Coercive State: The Decline of Democracy in Britain by Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith. Fontana, 352 pp., £5.95, February 1988, 0 00 637083 7
Letters
Sylvia Lawson, Jeremy Sheehy, Jose Brunner, Norman Fruman, Alison Weir, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Dan Latimer, J.E.M. Latham, Michael Dibdin, Roderigo Lopez, D.A.N. Jones
Ian Williams
Indictment: Power and Politics In the Construction Industry by David Morrell. Faber, 287 pp., £14.95, November 1987, 0 571 14985 5
Ian Taylor
Regulating the City: Competition, Scandal and Reform by Michael Clarke. Open University, 288 pp., £25, May 1986, 9780335153817 Regulating fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process by Michael Levi. Tavistock, 416 pp., £35, August 1987, 0 422 61160 3
Seamus Heaney
Anglo-Irish Occasions
Tom Shippey
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller. Joseph, 390 pp., £12.95, October 1987, 0 7181 2764 1 Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard. New Era, 605 pp., £3.50, February 1988, 9781870451185 Mission Earth. Vol. V: Fortune of Fear by L. Ron Hubbard. New Era, 365 pp., £10.75, July 1987, 1 870451 01 5 Mission Earth. Vol. VI: Death Quest by L. Ron Hubbard. New Era, 351 pp., £10.95, October 1987, 1 870451 02 3
George Steiner
Visions and Blueprints: Avant-Garde Culture and Radical Politics in Early 20th-century Europe edited by Edward Timms and Peter Collier. Manchester, 328 pp., £29.50, February 1988, 0 7190 2260 6
Marilyn Butler
In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and 19th-century Writing by Chris Baldick. Oxford, 207 pp., £22.50, December 1987, 0 19 811726 4
John Barton
The Literary Guide to the Bible edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Collins, 678 pp., £20, December 1987, 0 00 217439 1
Michael Hofmann
Three Poems
John Bayley
The Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921-1952 by Nirad Chaudhuri. Chatto, 979 pp., £25, November 1987, 0 7011 2476 8 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad Chaudhuri. Hogarth, 506 pp., £7.95, November 1987, 0 7012 0800 7
Amit Chaudhuri
Story: ‘Sunday’
Tony Gould
Mary and Richard: The Story of Richard Hillary and Mary Booker by Michael Burn. Deutsch, 249 pp., £12.95, April 1988, 0 233 98280 9
John Lanchester
S.: A Novel by John Updike. Deutsch, 244 pp., £10.95, April 1988, 0 233 98255 8
W.G. Runciman
Diary: On Trade-Unionism
Edna Longley
Under Storm’s Wing by Helen Thomas and Myfanwy Thomas. Carcanet, 318 pp., £14.95, February 1988, 0 85635 733 2
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