Stephen Sedley

Judge for yourself by James Pickles. Smith Gryphon, 242 pp., £15.99, April 1992, 1 85685 019 6
The Barrister’s World by John Morison and Philip Leith. Open University, 256 pp., £35, December 1991, 0 335 09396 5
Advocates by David Pannick. Oxford, 305 pp., £15, April 1992, 0 19 811948 8

Letters

Leonard Jackson, John Street, Daniel Weissbort, Claude Rawson, John Coggrave, Linda Clarke, G.M. Hyde, John Ashton

W.G. Runciman

Solidarity and Schism: ‘The Problem of Disorder’ in Durkheimian and Marxist Sociology by David Lockwood. Oxford, 433 pp., £48, March 1992, 0 19 827717 2

Edward Pearce

Maverick: The Life of a Union Rebel by Eric Hammond. Weidenfeld, 214 pp., £16.99, March 1992, 0 297 81200 9

Peter Clarke

Election Rides by Edward Pearce. Faber, 198 pp., £5.99, April 1992, 0 571 16657 1

Michael Brock

Herbert Samuel: A Political Life by Bernard Wasserstein. Oxford, 427 pp., £45, January 1992, 0 19 822648 9

D.J. Enright

The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology by J.P. Stern. Blackwell, 415 pp., £45, April 1992, 0 631 15849 9

Frank Kermode

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel by A.D. Nuttall. Oxford, 264 pp., £30, April 1992, 0 19 811741 8

A.D. Nuttall

The Game of Death

Bill Manhire

Two Poems

John Bayley

Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England by Alexander Welsh. Johns Hopkins, 262 pp., £21.50, April 1992, 0 8018 4271 9

Donald Davie

In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets by Peter Robinson. Oxford, 260 pp., £35, May 1992, 0 19 811248 3

Patricia Beer

The Wreck of the Deutschland by Sean Street. Souvenir, 208 pp., £15.99, March 1992, 0 285 63051 2
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White. Oxford, 531 pp., £35, March 1992, 0 19 812099 0

Ian Hacking

First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind by Stephen Braude. Routledge, 283 pp., £35, October 1991, 0 415 03591 0

Gabriele Annan

Oscar Kokoschka: Letters translated by Mary Whittall. Thames and Hudson, 320 pp., £24.95, March 1992, 0 500 01528 7

Patrick Collinson

Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study by G.R. Elton. Cambridge, 128 pp., £16.95, October 1991, 0 521 41098 3

Kathryn Tidrick

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History by Vron Ware. Verso, 263 pp., £34.95, February 1992, 0 86091 336 8
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt. Routledge, 257 pp., £35, January 1992, 9780415026758

Adam Bradbury

The Wrecking Yard by Pinckney Benedict. Secker, 195 pp., £7.99, March 1992, 0 436 20062 7
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. Hamish Hamilton, 630 pp., £14.99, February 1992, 0 241 13003 4
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe. Picador, 217 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 9780330323581

E.S. Turner

Sunny Intervals and Showers: Our Changing Weather by David Benedictus. Weidenfeld, 162 pp., £14.99, April 1992, 0 297 81154 1

Nicolas Freeling

Diary: On Missing the Detective Story

Jonathan Coe

Ulverton by Adam Thorpe. Secker, 382 pp., £14.99, May 1992, 0 436 52074 5
Kicking by Leslie Dick. Secker, 244 pp., £13.99, May 1992, 0 436 20011 2
Frankie Styne and the Silver Man by Kathy Page. Methuen, 233 pp., £13.99, April 1992, 0 413 66590 9

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