Vol. 12 No. 12 · 28 June 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 12 · 28 June 1990
Peter Hall
Confessions of a Reluctant Theorist by W.G. Runciman. Harvester, 253 pp., £30, April 1990, 0 7450 0484 9
Letters
Andrew Horn, Graham Martin, George Bernard, David Nokes
Christopher Hitchens
Not Many Dead: Journal of a Year in Fleet Street by Nicholas Garland. Hutchinson, 299 pp., £16.95, April 1990, 0 09 174449 0 A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v. Trelford and Others by Alan Watkins. Duckworth, 241 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 0 7156 2334 6
Andrew Motion
Three Poems
Frank Kermode
Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd. Collins, 471 pp., £16.95, June 1990, 0 00 215242 8
Paul Addison
1940: Myth and Reality by Clive Ponting. Hamish Hamilton, 263 pp., £15.99, May 1990, 0 241 12668 1 British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol. IV: Security and Counter-Intelligence by F.H. Hinsley and C.A.G. Simkins. HMSO, 408 pp., £15.95, April 1990, 0 11 630952 0 Unauthorised Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid 1942 by Brian Loring Villa. Oxford, 314 pp., £15, March 1990, 0 19 540679 6
Basil Davidson
Struggle for the Balkans by Svetozar Vukmanovic, translated by Charles Bartlett. Merlin, 356 pp., £18.50, January 1990, 0 85036 347 0
Mark Ridley
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould. Hutchinson Radius, 347 pp., £14.95, February 1990, 0 09 174271 4
Wendy Steiner
The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex and the Women Question by Ruth Brandon. Secker, 294 pp., £16.95, January 1990, 0 436 06722 6
Mary Beard
The Oxford Book of Marriage edited by Helge Rubinstein. Oxford, 383 pp., £15, March 1990, 0 19 214150 3 The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia by Jack Goody. Cambridge, 542 pp., £37.50, February 1990, 0 521 36574 0
John Ryle
Which of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair by Colin Spencer. Viking, 258 pp., £15.99, May 1990, 0 670 83076 3
Christopher Driver
The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflection on Death edited by Rosemary Dinnage. Viking, 291 pp., £14.99, April 1990, 0 670 82763 0 Death, Ritual and Bereavement edited by Ralph Houlbrooke. Routledge, 250 pp., £35, October 1990, 0 415 01165 5 In the Face of Death by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll. Viking, 254 pp., £15.99, April 1990, 0 670 80703 6
John Bayley
A.A. Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite. Faber, 554 pp., £17.50, June 1990, 0 571 13888 8
Stephen Wall
Death’s Darkest Face by Julian Symons. Macmillan, 272 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 0 333 51783 0 Vendetta by Michael Dibdin. Faber, 281 pp., £12.99, June 1990, 0 571 14332 6 Gallowglass by Barbara Vine. Viking, 296 pp., £13.99, March 1990, 0 670 83241 3
Akeel Bilgrami
A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Rage of Islam by Malise Ruthven. Chatto, 184 pp., £14.95, February 1990, 0 7011 3591 3
Julian Symons
The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr, translated by John Woods. Chatto, 202 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 0 7011 3502 6 The End of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky, translated by Paul Wilson. Faber, 188 pp., £12.99, May 1990, 0 571 14973 1 The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe. Fourth Estate, 198 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 1 872180 51 5 Last Loves by Alan Sillitoe. Grafton, 190 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 0 333 51783 0
Peter Clarke
Diary: Labour’s Return
Raymond Fancher
Rebel with a Cause by H.J. Eysenck. W.H. Allen, 310 pp., £14.95, March 1990, 1 85227 162 0
Gabriele Annan
McEnroe: Taming the Talent by Richard Evans. Bloomsbury, 216 pp., £14.99, June 1990, 0 7475 0618 3
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