Vol. 12 No. 14 · 26 July 1990
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Vol. 12 No. 14 · 26 July 1990
Rian Malan
The Mind of South Africa by Allister Sparks. Heinemann, 424 pp., £16.95, May 1990, 0 434 75266 5
Letters
Ted Honderich, Norman Potter, Craig Raine, Alan Sinfield, Yirmiyahu Yovel, William Milne, William Guy, Keith Flett, David Shillam, John Wells, Alexandra Kempner
Christopher Reid
Poem: ‘Your Biographer’
Ross McKibbin
Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays by R.W. Johnson. Harvester, 347 pp., £25, July 1990, 9780745007359
Mary Beard
The Making of ‘The Golden Bough’: The Origin and Growth of an Argument by Robert Fraser. Macmillan, 240 pp., £35, July 1990, 0 333 49631 0
Ian Hamilton
Four Poems
Harriet Ritvo
Charles Darwin: A New Biography by John Bowlby. Hutchinson, 511 pp., £19.95, June 1990, 0 09 174229 3
George Walden
The Conservative MP George Walden on the year peace broke out
Edward Pearce
A Sparrow’s Flight: Memoirs by Lord Hailsham. Collins, 463 pp., £17.50, July 1990, 0 00 215545 1
Paul Foot
A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England: W.P. Roberts and the Struggle for Workers’ Rights by Raymond Challinor. Tauris, 302 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 1 85043 150 7
Tom Shippey
England and Englishness: Ideas of Nationhood in English Poetry, 1688-1900 by John Lucas. Hogarth, 227 pp., £18, February 1990, 0 7012 0892 9 The Englishman’s England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism by Ian Ousby. Cambridge, 244 pp., £45, February 1990, 0 521 37374 3 Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660 by Gerald Hammond. Harvard, 394 pp., £24.95, March 1990, 0 674 30625 2
Eric Evans
Scottish Society 1500-1800 edited by R.A. Houston and I.D. Whyte. Cambridge, 298 pp., £30, February 1989, 0 521 32522 6
Tony Gould
Pinochet’s Chile: Those who went and those who stayed
Graham Coster
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple. Collins, 314 pp., £14.95, July 1989, 0 00 217948 2 The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin. Chatto, 230 pp., £14.95, March 1990, 0 7011 3620 0 Silk Roads: The Asian Adventures of André and Clara Malraux by Axel Madsen. Tauris, 299 pp., £14.95, April 1990, 1 85043 209 0 At Home and Abroad by V.S. Pritchett. Chatto, 332 pp., £14.95, February 1990, 0 7011 3620 0 Great Plains by Ian Frazier. Faber, 290 pp., £14.99, March 1990, 0 571 14260 5
Patrick Parrinder
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus, translated by Arnold Pomerans. Viking, 609 pp., £14.99, June 1990, 0 670 81456 3 Joanna by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Virago, 260 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 1 85381 158 0 A Sensible Life by Mary Wesley. Bantam, 364 pp., £12.95, March 1990, 9780593019306 The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Macmillan, 418 pp., £12.95, June 1990, 0 333 53875 7
James Wood
The things they carried by Tim O’Brien. Collins, 255 pp., £12.95, May 1990, 0 00 223603 6
Karl Miller
Diary: On the 1990 World Cup
Martin Crimp
Story: ‘Stage Kiss’
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