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Vol. 10 No. 18 · 13 October 1988
Ian Hamilton
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite. Faber/Marvell Press, 330 pp., £16.95, October 1988, 0 571 15196 5
Letters
Peter Wagner, Michael Mason, Itamar Even-Zohar, Brian McHale, Roth Ronen, William Fryer, Madeleine Zelouf, Jon Silkin, David Sutton, Harvey Sachs
Les Murray
Snakecharmers in Texas by Clive James. Cape, 373 pp., £11.95, July 1988, 0 224 02571 6
Andrew Motion
Poem: ‘Tamworth’
Michael Rogin
Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North by Ben Bradlee. Grafton, 572 pp., £14.95, September 1988, 0 246 13364 3 For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald Regan. Hutchinson, 397 pp., £16.95, June 1988, 0 09 173622 6
R.W. Johnson
Scenes from South African Life
Penelope Fitzgerald
Olive Schreiner: Letters. Vol. 1: 1871-1899 edited by Richard Rive. Oxford, 409 pp., £30, February 1988, 0 19 812220 9
John Ryle
The Missionaries by Norman Lewis. Secker, 245 pp., £10.95, May 1988, 0 436 24595 7
Philip Williamson
Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 1929-1931 by Stuart Ball. Yale, 266 pp., £25, April 1988, 0 300 03961 1
John Kerrigan
Archaic Figure by Amy Clampitt. Faber, 113 pp., £4.95, February 1988, 0 571 15043 8 Tourists by Grevel Lindop. Carcanet, 95 pp., £6.95, July 1987, 0 85635 697 2 Sleeping rough by Charles Boyle. Carcanet, 64 pp., £5.95, November 1987, 0 85635 731 6 This Other Life by Peter Robinson. Carcanet, 96 pp., £5.95, April 1988, 0 85635 737 5 In the Hot-House by Alan Jenkins. Chatto, 60 pp., £4.95, May 1988, 0 7011 3312 0 Monterey Cypress by Lachlan Mackinnon. Chatto, 62 pp., £4.95, May 1988, 0 7011 3264 7 My Darling Camel by Selima Hill. Chatto, 64 pp., £4.95, May 1988, 0 7011 3286 8 The Air Mines of Mistila by Philip Gross and Sylvia Kantaris. Bloodaxe, 80 pp., £4.95, June 1988, 1 85224 055 5 X/Self by Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Oxford, 131 pp., £6.95, April 1988, 0 19 281987 9 The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott. Faber, 117 pp., £3.95, March 1988, 9780571149094
J.R. Pole
A History of West Indies Cricket by Michael Manley. Deutsch, 575 pp., £17.95, May 1988, 0 233 98259 0 Sobers: Twenty Years at the Top by Garfield Sobers and Brian Scovell. Macmillan, 204 pp., £11.95, June 1988, 0 333 37267 0
Gavin Millar
A Life by Elia Kazan. Deutsch, 848 pp., £17.95, June 1988, 0 233 98292 2
John Hughes
Poem: ‘Alchemy: A Tale’
Margaret Walters
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald. Collins, 187 pp., £10.95, September 1988, 0 00 223261 8 A Wedding of Cousins by Emma Tennant. Viking, 167 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 670 81502 0 The Skeleton in the Cupboard by Alice Thomas Ellis. Duckworth, 138 pp., £9.95, September 1988, 0 7156 2269 2
Theodore Zeldin
Diary: On the Subject of Happiness
John Sutherland
Worlds Apart by David Holbrook. Hale, 205 pp., £10.95, September 1988, 9780709033639 Story of My Life by Jay McInerney. Bloomsbury, 188 pp., £11.95, August 1988, 0 7475 0180 7 Forgotten Life by Brian Aldiss. Gollancz, 284 pp., £11.95, September 1988, 0 575 04369 5 Incline Our hearts by A.N. Wilson. Hamish Hamilton, 250 pp., £11.95, August 1988, 0 241 12256 2
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