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Vol. 21 No. 18 · 16 September 1999
Stephen Sedley
The House of Lords: Its Parliamentary and Judicial Roles edited by Brice Dickson and Paul Carmichael. Hart, 258 pp., £30, December 1998, 1 84113 020 6 Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years edited by Robert Hazell. Oxford, 263 pp., £17.99, January 1999, 0 19 829801 3 The Law and Parliament edited by Dawn Olivier and Gavin Drewry. Butterworth, 219 pp., £15.95, September 1998, 0 406 98092 6 Crown Powers: Subject and Citizens by Christopher Vincenzi. Pinter, 343 pp., £47.50, April 1998, 1 85567 454 8
Letters
Anthony Sampson, Margaret Kennedy, P.S. Joll, A.J. Caston, Roger Deakin, William Harshaw, Michael Prior, Dan Jacobson, David Norbrook
Matthew Sweeney
Poem: ‘Swimmer’
Mary Beard
Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Harvard, 262 pp., £30.95, March 1999, 0 674 68966 6
Germaine Greer
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Harold Love. Oxford, 712 pp., £95, April 1999, 0 19 818367 4
Thomas Jones
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler. Hamish Hamilton, 835 pp., £25, June 1999, 0 241 13260 6
Mark Ford
What’s Welsh for Zen? The Autobiography of John Cale by Victor Bockris. Bloomsbury, 272 pp., £20, January 1999, 0 7475 3668 6
Peter Campbell
Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641 by Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe. Royal Academy, 360 pp., £22.50, May 1999, 9780847821969 Anthony van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641 by Robin Blake. Constable, 435 pp., £25, August 1999, 9780094797208
Avi Shlaim
The Propitious Rise of Israel’s little Napoleon
E.H.H. Green
Bonar Law by R.J.Q. Adams. Murray, 458 pp., £25, April 1999, 0 7195 5422 5
Peter Bradshaw
Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill edited by Mary Soames. Black Swan, 702 pp., £15, August 1999, 0 552 99750 1
Will Woodward
Feeling Right
Mark Rudman
Poem: ‘Provo’
David Craig
Everything you need by A.L. Kennedy. Cape, 567 pp., £16.99, June 1999, 0 224 04433 8
James Peach
My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Helen Stevenson. Faber, 153 pp., £9.99, July 1999, 0 571 19663 2
Tom Paulin
Diary: Summer in Donegal
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