Vol. 14 No. 5 · 12 March 1992
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Vol. 14 No. 5 · 12 March 1992
R.W. Johnson
Paradigms Lost: The Post Cold War Era edited by Chester Hartman and Pedro Vilanova. Pluto, 205 pp., £10.95, November 1991, 0 7453 0638 1 The Crisis of Socialism in Europe edited by Christiane Lemke and Gary Marks. Duke, 253 pp., £37.95, March 1992, 0 8223 1197 6
Letters
Rosalind Mitchison, Daniel Weissbort, G.H. Hyde, Janet Adam Smith, Theo Dorgan, Hyam Maccoby, John Black, Nicolas Walter
Neal Ascherson
After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism edited by Robin Blackburn. Verso, 327 pp., £32.95, November 1991, 0 86091 540 9
Garret FitzGerald
A Call to the Unionists
Jeremy Warner
Maxwell: The Outsider by Tom Bower. Heinemann, 520 pp., £16.99, December 1991, 0 7493 0238 0
Christopher Hitchens
Tobacco: A History by V.G. Kiernan. Radius, 249 pp., £18.99, December 1991, 0 09 174216 1 The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking edited by Simon Rae. Faber, 554 pp., £15.99, November 1991, 0 571 16229 0
Charles Nicholl
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy. Yale, 294 pp., £16.95, September 1991, 0 300 04993 5 The Elizabethan Secret Service by Alison Plowden. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 158 pp., £30, September 1991, 0 7108 1152 7 The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe by Victor Thoren. Cambridge, 523 pp., £40, May 1991, 0 521 35158 8
Conrad Russell
Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering 1500-1620 by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Cambridge, 489 pp., £50, September 1991, 0 521 38142 8
Paul Smith
Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Joseph, 808 pp., £20, October 1991, 0 7181 3430 3
Stephanie West
The Unauthorised Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Lane Fox. Viking, 478 pp., £20, October 1991, 0 670 82412 7
Angus Calder
Empire and English Character by Kathryn Tidrick. Tauris, 338 pp., £24.95, August 1990, 1 85043 191 4 Into Africa: The story of the East African Safari by Kenneth Cameron. Constable, 229 pp., £14.95, June 1990, 0 09 469770 1 Burton: Snow upon the Desert by Frank McLynn. Murray, 428 pp., £19.95, September 1990, 0 7195 4818 7 From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton’s Travels in the Americas, 1860-69 by Frank McLynn. Barrie and Jenkins, 258 pp., £16.99, July 1991, 0 7126 3789 3 The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles by Nigel Barley. Viking, 276 pp., £16.99, March 1992, 0 670 83642 7
Anne Stevenson
Two Poems
Michael Brock
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 by Stefan Collini. Oxford, 383 pp., £40, September 1991, 0 19 820173 7
Alan Ross
Poem: ‘U 244’
Glyn Maxwell
Poem: ‘Mid-History of the Motor-Car’
Asa Briggs
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering Knight-Errant by Adrian Vaughan. Murray, 285 pp., £19.95, October 1991, 0 7195 4636 2
Ian Hamilton
Will this do? by Auberon Waugh. Century, 288 pp., £15.99, October 1991, 0 7126 3734 6 Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper. Hodder, 344 pp., £19.99, October 1991, 0 340 53488 5
John Sutherland
Brrm! Brrm! by Clive James. Cape, 160 pp., £12.99, November 1991, 0 224 03226 7 Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler. Chatto, 337 pp., £14.99, October 1991, 0 7011 3787 8 Faustine by Emma Tennant. Faber, 140 pp., £12.99, March 1992, 9780571142637
Patricia Beer
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud. Hamish Hamilton, 186 pp., £14.99, January 1992, 0 241 13179 0 Eve’s Tattoo by Emily Prager. Chatto, 194 pp., £8.99, January 1992, 0 7011 3882 3 A Dubious Legacy by Mary Wesley. Bantam, 272 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 593 02537 7
Susannah Clapp
Diary: On Angela Carter
Stephen Wall
Ever After by Graham Swift. Picador, 261 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 330 32331 8
Julian Symons
HMS Glasshouse by Sean O’Brien. Oxford, 56 pp., £5.99, November 1991, 0 19 282835 5 The Hogweed Lass by Alan Dixon. Poet and Printer, 33 pp., £3, September 1991, 0 900597 39 9 Collected Poems by Les Murray. Carcanet, 319 pp., £18.95, November 1991, 0 85635 923 8
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