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Vol. 11 No. 13 · 6 July 1989
R.W. Johnson
Who Framed Colin Wallace? by Paul Foot. Macmillan, 306 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 0 333 47008 7
Letters
Ralph Russell, Rodney Pybus, Maurice Hindle, Bruno Nightingale, Kiffin Rockwell, George Szirtes
Perry Anderson
A Treatise on Social Theory. Vol. II: Substantive Social Theory by W.G. Runciman. Cambridge, 493 pp., £35, February 1989, 0 521 24959 7
Robert Crawford
Poem: ‘Native Questions’
Dick Wilson
Amenability snaps in Tiananmen Square
William Rodgers
The Challenge of Europe: Can Britain win? by Michael Heseltine. Weidenfeld, 226 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 0 297 79608 9
David Craig
A Search for Scotland by R.F. Mackenzie. Collins, 280 pp., £16.95, May 1989, 0 00 215185 5 A Claim of Right for Scotland edited by Owen Dudley Edwards. Polygon, 202 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 0 7486 6022 4 The Eclipse of Scottish Culture by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull. Polygon, 121 pp., £6.95, May 1989, 0 7486 6000 3 The Bird Path: Collected Longer Poems by Kenneth White. Mainstream, 239 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 1 85158 245 2 Travels in the Drifting Dawn by Kenneth White. Mainstream, 160 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 1 85158 240 1
Kenneth White
Notes from an Outpost
Michael Hofmann
Two Poems
Paul Foot
Talking Blues: The Police in their Own Words by Roger Graef. Collins Harvill, 512 pp., £15, May 1989, 0 00 272436 7
Rosemary Ashton
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. Vol. IV: 1847-1850 edited by Frederic Burkhardt and Sydney Smith. Cambridge, 744 pp., £32.50, February 1989, 0 521 25590 2 Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction by George Levine. Harvard, 336 pp., £21.95, November 1988, 0 674 19285 0
Peter Redgrove
Poem: ‘White Midas’
Dinah Birch
The Middleman, and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Virago, 197 pp., £11.95, June 1989, 1 85381 058 4 The Burning Boys by John Fuller. Chatto, 128 pp., £10.95, June 1989, 9780701134648 Termination Rock by Gillian Freeman. Pandora, 182 pp., £12.95, June 1989, 0 04 440352 6 Blackground by Joan Aiken. Gollancz, 254 pp., £11.95, June 1989, 0 575 04502 7
Susannah Clapp
Laughter and the Love of Friends: A Memoir 1945 to the Present Day by Ursula Wyndham. Lennard, 208 pp., £14.95, March 1989, 1 85291 061 5 1939: The Last Season of Peace by Angela Lambert. Weidenfeld, 235 pp., £14.95, April 1989, 0 297 79539 2 Rosehill: Portraits from a Midland City by Carol Lake. Bloomsbury, 179 pp., £12.95, May 1989, 9780747503019
Neil Rennie
The Pacific since Magellan. Vol. III: Paradise Found and Lost by O.H.K. Spate. Routledge, 410 pp., £40, January 1989, 0 415 02565 6 Captain Bligh: The Man and his Mutinies by Gavin Kennedy. Duckworth, 321 pp., £14.95, April 1989, 0 7156 2231 5 The Sublime Savage: James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian by Fiona Stafford. Edinburgh, 208 pp., £22.50, November 1988, 0 85224 569 6
C.J. Walker
Diary: In Erevan
Marina Warner
The Romantic Child: From Runge to Sendak by Robert Rosenblum. Thames and Hudson, 64 pp., £5.95, February 1989, 0 500 55020 4 Caldecott & Co: Notes on Books and Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Reinhardt, 216 pp., £13.95, March 1989, 1 871061 06 7 Dear Mili by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim and Maurice Sendak. Viking Kestrel, £9.95, November 1988, 0 670 80168 2 Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the ‘Tales’ by Ruth Bottigheimer. Yale, 211 pp., £8.95, April 1989, 0 300 04389 9 The one who set out to study fear by Peter Redgrove. Bloomsbury, 183 pp., £13.95, April 1989, 0 7475 0187 4
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