Stephen Sedley

Judge for yourself by James Pickles
The Barrister’s World by John Morison and Philip Leith
Advocates by David Pannick

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

Edward Pearce

Maverick: The Life of a Union Rebel by Eric Hammond

Peter Clarke

Election Rides by Edward Pearce

Michael Brock

Herbert Samuel: A Political Life by Bernard Wasserstein

D.J. Enright

The Heart of Europe: Essays on Literature and Ideology by J.P. Stern

Frank Kermode

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel by A.D. Nuttall

A.D. Nuttall

The Game of Death

Bill Manhire

Two Poems

John Bayley

Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England by Alexander Welsh

Donald Davie

In the Circumstances: About Poems and Poets by Peter Robinson

Patricia Beer

The Wreck of the Deutschland by Sean Street
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White

Ian Hacking

First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind by Stephen Braude

Gabriele Annan

Oscar Kokoschka: Letters translated by Mary Whittall

Patrick Collinson

Return to Essentials: Some Reflections on the Present State of Historical Study by G.R. Elton

Kathryn Tidrick

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History by Vron Ware
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt

Adam Bradbury

The Wrecking Yard by Pinckney Benedict
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

E.S. Turner

Sunny Intervals and Showers: Our Changing Weather by David Benedictus

Nicolas Freeling

Diary: On Missing the Detective Story

Jonathan Coe

Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
Kicking by Leslie Dick
Frankie Styne and the Silver Man by Kathy Page

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