Vol. 14 No. 19 · 8 October 1992

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Vol. 14 No. 19 · 8 October 1992

Wynne Godley

Maastricht and All That

Letters

M.F. Burnyeat, Elizabeth James, Bernard Harrison, Gerald Noonan, Michael Mason, Peter Cadogan, Nicholas Humphrey, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Jean Raison, B.R. Cosin, C.K. Stead

Stephen Smith

Four Hours in My Lai: A War Crime and its Aftermath by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim. Viking, 430 pp., £17.99, May 1992, 0 670 83233 2
Tiger Balm: Travels in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia by Lucretia Stewart. Chatto, 261 pp., £10.99, June 1992, 0 7011 3892 0

John Barrell

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley. Yale, 429 pp., £19.95, September 1992, 0 300 05737 7

J.G.A. Pocock

Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 by Anne Salmond. Viking, 477 pp., £18.99, March 1992, 0 670 83298 7

D.J. Enright

The Collected Stories by John McGahern. Faber, 408 pp., £14.99, October 1992, 0 571 16274 6

Julian Symons

The God-Fearer by Dan Jacobson. Bloomsbury, 160 pp., £13.99, September 1992, 0 7475 1258 2

Jonathan Coe

Poor Things by Alasdair Gray. Bloomsbury, 317 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 0 7475 1246 9

John Bayley

Fraud by Anita Brookner. Cape, 224 pp., £14.99, August 1992, 0 224 03315 8

Patrick Parrinder

Now you know by Michael Frayn. Viking, 282 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 9780670845545

Frank Kermode

Sacred Country by Rose Tremain. Sinclair-Stevenson, 365 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 1 85619 118 4

Helen King

Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers by G.E.R. Lloyd. Cambridge, 457 pp., £45, May 1991, 0 521 37419 7

Elspeth Barker

Catullus by Charles Martin. Yale, 197 pp., £22.50, July 1992, 0 300 05199 9

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Poem: ‘My Prickly Friend’

Nicolas Tredell

Out of the Rain by Glyn Maxwell. Bloodaxe, 112 pp., £6.95, June 1992, 1 85224 193 4
Body Politic by Tony Flynn. Bloodaxe, 60 pp., £5.95, June 1992, 1 85224 129 2
Red by Linda France. Bloodaxe, 80 pp., £5.95, June 1992, 1 85224 178 0
Red-Haired Android by Jeremy Reed. Grafton, 280 pp., £7.99, July 1992, 9780586091845
Leaf-Viewing by Peter Robinson, with an essay by Peter Swaab. Robert Jones, 36 pp., £9.95, July 1992, 0 9514240 2 5

Colin Wallace

The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland by Steve Bruce. Oxford, 326 pp., £25, August 1992, 0 19 215961 5

David Allen

Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug by Clifford Foust. Princeton, 317 pp., £27.50, April 1992, 0 691 08747 4

Tom Paulin

Diary: In Donegal

Richard Horton

Edward Jenner 1749-1823 by Richard Fisher. Deutsch, 361 pp., £20, July 1991, 0 233 98681 2

Keith Walker

Handel’s ‘Messiah’: A Celebration by Richard Luckett. Gollancz, 258 pp., £18.99, April 1992, 0 575 05286 4
The Rise of Musical Classics in 18th-Century England: A Study in Canon, Ritual and Ideology by William Weber. Oxford, 274 pp., £35, July 1992, 0 19 816287 1

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