Vol. 10 No. 20 · 10 November 1988

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Vol. 10 No. 20 · 10 November 1988

Michael Mason

Report of the Inquiry into Child Abuse in Cleveland 1987 by Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
When Salem came to the Boro by Stuart Bell
The Last Taboo by Gay Search
Unofficial Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse – The Cleveland Case by Beatrix Campbell

Letters

Norman Page, Paul Foot, George Hyde, Tim McGuire

Mary-Kay Wilmers

The Faber Book of Seductions edited by Jenny Newman
Journeys to the Underworld by Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Susannah Clapp

The Suzy Lamplugh Story by Andrew Stephen

Barbara Everett

A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers by Hugh Kenner

James Fenton

Five Poems

Robert Crawford

MacDiarmid by Alan Bold
A Drunk Man looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid, edited by Kenneth Buthlay
The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie Letters edited by Catherine Kerrigan
Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russian by Peter McCarey

Rosalind Mitchison

Bonnie Prince Charlie by Rosalind Marshall
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography by Susan Maclean Kybett
Charles Edward Stuart: A Tragedy in Many Acts by Frank McLynn
Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald
Mary Stewart: Queen in Three Kingdoms edited by Michael Lynch
The Shadow of a Crown: The Life Story of James II of England and VII of Scotland by Meriol Trevor
The Scottish Tory Party: A History by Gerald Warner
The Elgins, 1766-1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives by Sydney Checkland

Frank Kuppner

Poem: ‘A Sequence of Sorts – Three Albanian Folksongs’

T.H. Barrett

Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times by Morris Rossabi
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John by L.N. Gumilev, translated by R.E.F. Smith

Edmund Leach

The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter

Alan Knight

Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution by John Mason Hart

Peter Campbell

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill

Jack Matthews

The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies

Chris Baldick

Poetry, Language and Politics by John Barrell
Garden – Nature – Language by Simon Pugh
Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture by David Cairns and Shaun Richards
The Shakespeare Myth edited by Graham Holderness

Francis Wyndham

Diary: At the Theatre

John Sutherland

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. Vol. IV: 1824-1900 edited by Walter Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton and Jean Harris Slingerland
Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and the Economies of the Novel by David Trotter
From Copyright to Copperfield by Alexander Welsh

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