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Vol. 17 No. 4 · 23 February 1995
Peter Clarke
Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 edited by Anthony Seldon and Stuart Ball. Oxford, 842 pp., £20, October 1994, 0 19 820238 5
Letters
Boris Ford, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Pearson, David Sylvester, Tom Rivers, Kenneth Hoyle, Gerald Long, David Townsend, Keith Flett, Nicolas Walter, Kiffin Rockwell, Bob Grumman
R.W. Johnson
Fool’s Gold: The Story of North Sea Oil by Christopher Harvie. Hamish Hamilton, 408 pp., £18.99, October 1994, 0 241 13352 1
Terry Eagleton
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy. Faber, 780 pp., £25, November 1994, 0 571 14250 8
Christopher Hitchens
The Philby Files. The Secret Life of the Master Spy: KGB Archives Revealed by Genrikh Borovik, edited by Phillip Knightley. Little, Brown, 382 pp., £18.99, September 1994, 0 316 91015 5 The Fifth Man by Roland Perry. Sidgwick, 486 pp., £16.99, October 1994, 0 283 06216 9 Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown. Hale, 640 pp., £25, January 1995, 9780709055822 My Five Cambridge Friends by Yuri Modin. Headline, 328 pp., £17.99, October 1994, 0 7472 1280 5 Looking for Mr Nobody: The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees by Jenny Rees. Weidenfeld, 291 pp., £18.99, October 1994, 0 297 81430 3
Malcolm Bull
The Holocaust in Historical Context. Vol. I: The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age by Steven Katz. Oxford, 702 pp., £40, July 1994, 0 19 507220 0
Robert Fisk
Remaining Issues
Alan Ross
Two Poems
E.S. Turner
Edward Lear: A Biography by Peter Levi. Macmillan, 362 pp., £20, January 1995, 0 333 58804 5
Terry Castle
Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick, edited by Isobel Grundy. Broadview, 359 pp., £9.99, May 1994, 1 55111 014 8
J.G.A. Pocock
Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols I-VI edited by David Womersley. Allen Lane, 1114 pp., £75, November 1994, 0 7139 9124 0
Angelica Goodden
Madame du Deffand and Her World by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh. Halban, 481 pp., £20, November 1994, 1 870015 51 7 Lettres à Voltaire by Madame du Deffand, edited by Chantal Thomas. Rivages, 215 pp., frs 55, October 1994, 2 86930 839 6
W.B. Carnochan
Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830 by Claude Rawson. Cambridge, 309 pp., £40, March 1994, 0 521 38395 1
John Bossy
William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell. Yale, 429 pp., £19.95, September 1994, 0 300 06132 3 The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity by Debora Kuller Shuger. California, 297 pp., £32, December 1994, 0 520 08480 2
Susan Wicks
Poem: ‘My Mother is Dispersed’
Rosemary Horrox
Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted by Susan Reynolds. Oxford, 544 pp., £20, August 1994, 0 19 820458 2
Robert Crawford
Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams. Faber, 67 pp., £6.99, June 1994, 0 571 17175 3 Spring Forest by Geoffrey Lehmann. Faber, 171 pp., £6.99, September 1994, 0 571 17246 6 Everything is Strange by Frank Kuppner. Carcanet, 78 pp., £8.95, July 1994, 1 85754 071 9 The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie. Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £6.95, April 1994, 1 85224 284 1
Claudia Johnson
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore. Faber, 148 pp., £14.99, November 1994, 0 571 17310 1
Jenny Diski
Diary: A Looking-Glass Land of Sorts
Michael Burns
Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell. Routledge, 199 pp., £35, February 1994, 0 415 09155 1 The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-Keeping in 19th-Century Paris by Kathleen Kete. California, 200 pp., £22.50, August 1994, 0 520 07101 8
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