Vol. 14 No. 23 · 3 December 1992
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Vol. 14 No. 23 · 3 December 1992
R.W. Johnson
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott. HarperCollins, 811 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 00 215189 8 Harold Wilson by Austen Morgan. Pluto, 625 pp., £25, May 1992, 0 7453 0635 7
Letters
Stephen Sedley, Zygmunt Frankel, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Tony Gould, Hans Hopman, Terence Hegarty, J.L. Sievert
Jose Harris
G.M. Trevelyan: A life in History by David Cannadine. HarperCollins, 288 pp., £18, September 1992, 0 00 215872 8
Anthony Howard
The Faber Book of Church and Clergy edited by A.N. Wilson. Faber, 304 pp., £17.50, November 1992, 0 571 16204 5 High and Mitred: A Study of Prime Ministers as Bishop-Makers 1837-1977 by Bernard Palmer. SPCK, 350 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 281 04594 1
Geoffrey Hawthorn
English Questions by Perry Anderson. Verso, 370 pp., £39.95, May 1992, 0 86091 375 9 A Zone of Engagement by Perry Anderson. Verso, 384 pp., £39.95, May 1992, 0 86091 377 5
Bob Woffinden
Who killed Alison Shaughnessy?
John Sutherland
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams of Exile by Ian Bell. Mainstream, 295 pp., £14.99, November 1992, 1 85158 457 9
Christopher Hitchens
P.G. Wodehouse: Man and Myth by Barry Phelps. Constable, 344 pp., £16.95, October 1992, 9780094716209
Penelope Fitzgerald
Letters from Margaret: Correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Margaret Wheeler 1944-50 edited by Rebecca Swift. Chatto, 279 pp., £13.99, November 1992, 0 7011 4783 0
Sylvia Lawson
Letters to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir and Quintin Hoare. Radius, 531 pp., £20, December 1991, 0 09 174774 0 Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvior, 1926-1939 edited by Simone de Beauvior, translated by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacAfee. Hamish Hamilton, 448 pp., £20, November 1992, 9780241133361
Hugo Williams
Poem: ‘Mirth’
Rosemary Dinnage
Freud’s Women by Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester. Weidenfeld, 563 pp., £25, October 1992, 0 297 81244 0 Psychoanalysis in its Cultural Context edited by Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson. Edinburgh, 209 pp., £30, August 1992, 9780748603596
Ruth Padel
Poem: ‘Harley Street’
Linda Colley
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag. Cape, 419 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 0 224 02912 6
Patricia Beer
Jesus by A.N. Wilson. Sinclair-Stevenson, 269 pp., £15, September 1992, 1 85619 114 1
Robert Fisk
Poor Khaled
Stephen Smith
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan. Hutchinson, 297 pp., £16.99, September 1992, 0 09 175208 6 Hostage: The Complete Story of the Lebanese Captives by Con Coughlin. Little, Brown, 461 pp., £16.99, October 1992, 0 316 90304 3
Michael Davie
The Power of News: The History of Reuters by Donald Read. Oxford, 330 pp., £20, October 1992, 0 19 821776 5
Philip Purser
The Sieve of Time: Memoirs by Leni Riefenstahl. Quartet, 669 pp., £30, September 1992, 0 7043 7021 2
P.N. Furbank
The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser. Viking, 432 pp., £17.99, September 1992, 0 670 84701 1
Patricia Craig
Life-Size by Jenefer Shute. Secker, 232 pp., £7.99, August 1992, 0 436 47278 3 Daughters of the House by Michèle Roberts. Virago, 172 pp., £14.99, September 1992, 1 85381 550 0
John Lanchester
Diary: Arsenalesque Melancholy
T.J. Binyon
The man who wasn’t Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon by Patrick Marnham. Bloomsbury, 346 pp., £17.99, April 1992, 0 7475 0884 4
C.K. Stead
A World of My Own: A Dream Diary by Graham Greene. Reinhardt, 116 pp., £12.99, October 1992, 1 871061 36 9
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