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Vol. 15 No. 23 · 2 December 1993
R.W. Johnson
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher. HarperCollins, 914 pp., £25, October 1993, 0 00 255049 0
Letters
Dermot Lewis, Louise Horton, William Lamont, Patrice Higonnet, Warren Wallace, Alan Milne, Kate Symonds
D.J. Enright
Poem: ‘Caligula on the subject of names’
Christopher Hitchens
Wilson: The Authorised Life by Philip Ziegler. Weidenfeld, 593 pp., £20, September 1993, 0 297 81276 9
Jenny Turner
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Secker, 344 pp., £8.99, July 1993, 0 436 56567 6
Terry Eagleton
Patrick Hamilton: A Life by Sean French. Faber, 327 pp., £20, November 1993, 0 571 14353 9
Paul Foot
John Strachey: An Intellectual Biography by Noel Thompson. Macmillan, 288 pp., £27.50, May 1993, 0 333 51154 9 John Strachey by Michael Newman. Manchester, 208 pp., £12.99, September 1989, 9780719021749
Bill Manhire
Poem: ‘An Amazing Week in New Zealand’
Jonathan Spence
Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty by Sima Qian, edited and translated by Burton Watson. Columbia, 221 pp., $50, June 1993, 0 231 08166 9
Joseph Frank
A Writer’s Diary. Vol. I: 1873-1876 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated and annotated by Kenneth Lantz. Northwestern, 805 pp., $49.95, July 1993, 0 8101 1094 6
John Bayley
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell edited by Regina Marler, introduced by Quentin Bell. Bloomsbury, 593 pp., £25, November 1993, 0 7475 1550 6
Nicholas Penny
Glenkiln by John McEwen and John Haddington. Canongate, 96 pp., £20, November 1993, 0 08 624324 1 Henry Moore: An Interpretation by Peter Fuller, edited by Anthony O’Hear. Methuen, 98 pp., £16, September 1993, 9780413676207
Peter Campbell
The Materials of Sculpture by Nicholas Penny. Yale, 318 pp., £35, November 1993, 0 300 05556 0
Rosemary Hill
Karl Friedrich Schinkel: ‘The English Journey’ edited by David Bindman and Gottfried Riemann, translated by F. Gagna Walls. Yale, 220 pp., £35, July 1993, 0 300 04117 9 The Modernist Garden in France by Dorothée Imbert. Yale, 268 pp., £40, August 1993, 0 300 04716 9
Michael Wood
Corona, Corona by Michael Hofmann. Faber, 55 pp., £12.99, September 1993, 0 571 16962 7
Leslie Wilson
The Virago Book of Witches edited by Shahrukh Husain. Virago, 244 pp., £14.99, October 1993, 1 85381 562 4
Elisa Segrave
The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Granta, 237 pp., £8.99, October 1993, 0 14 014081 6
Jonathan Coe
Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten. Marion Boyars, 239 pp., £14.95, October 1993, 0 7145 2978 8
Robert Irwin
Diary: The Best Thing since Sex
Colin McGinn
Renewing Philosophy by Hilary Putnam. Harvard, 234 pp., £19.95, January 1993, 9780674760936
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