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Vol. 11 No. 15 · 17 August 1989
Christopher Hitchens
Where there is greed: Margaret Thatcher and the Betrayal of Britain’s Future by Gordon Brown. Mainstream, 182 pp., £4.95, May 1989, 1 85158 233 9 CounterBlasts No 3: A Rational Advance for the Labour Party by John Lloyd. Chatto, 57 pp., £2.99, June 1989, 0 7011 3519 0
Letters
Christopher Price, Leonard Tivey, Kenneth White, James MacGibbon, David Roberts, Gareth Jones, Michael Cohen, Jenny Graham
Ross McKibbin
Ross McKibbin on the summer of discontent
Jane Miller
Blaming teachers
Hugo Young
The Little Platoon: Diplomacy and the Falklands Dispute by Michael Charlton. Blackwell, 230 pp., £14.95, June 1989, 0 631 16564 9
Karl Miller
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson. Weidenfeld, 385 pp., £14.95, October 1988, 0 297 79395 0 CounterBlasts No 1: God, Man and Mrs Thatcher by Jonathan Raban. Chatto, 72 pp., £2.99, June 1989, 0 7011 3470 4
Daniel Kevles
Thinking about science: Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology by Ernst Peter Fischer and Carol Lipson. Norton, 334 pp., £13.95, January 1989, 9780393025088 Is science necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists by M.F. Perutz. Barrie and Jenkins, 285 pp., £14.95, July 1989, 0 7126 2123 7
Peter Clarke
Arnold Toynbee: A Life by William McNeill. Oxford, 346 pp., £16.95, July 1989, 0 19 505863 1
Jonathan Steinberg
Fascism and the Mafia by Christopher Duggan. Yale, 322 pp., £19.95, January 1989, 0 300 04372 4 A Thief in the Night: The Death of Pope John Paul I by John Cornwell. Viking, 301 pp., £14.95, May 1989, 0 670 82387 2
V.G. Kiernan
Dutch Primacy in World Trade, 1585-1740 by Jonathan Israel. Oxford, 462 pp., £45, June 1989, 0 19 822729 9
Christopher Small
Sacred Elephant by Heathcote Williams. Cape, 175 pp., £9.95, July 1989, 0 224 02642 9
William Empson
Teaching English in the Far East
John Levett
Poem: ‘Singeing’
John Henry Jones
Diary: At Home with the Empsons
William Empson
Three Hitherto Unpublished Poems
Michael Wood
Memories of Amnesia by Laurence Shainberg. Collins Harvill, 190 pp., £10.95, April 1989, 0 00 272024 8 We find ourselves in Moontown by Jay Gummerman. Cape, 174 pp., £11.95, June 1989, 0 224 02662 3 The Russia House by John le Carré. Hodder, 344 pp., £12.95, June 1989, 0 340 50573 7 My Secret History by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 468 pp., £13.95, June 1989, 0 241 12369 0
Mark Illis
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff. Bloomsbury, 292 pp., £12.95, April 1989, 0 7475 0274 9
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