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Vol. 27 No. 8 · 21 April 2005
David Runciman
Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare by Dennis Thompson. Cambridge, 349 pp., £16.99, November 2004, 0 521 54722 9 NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Healthcare by Allyson Pollock. Verso, 271 pp., £15.99, September 2004, 1 84467 011 2 Brown’s Britain by Robert Peston. Short Books, 369 pp., £14.99, January 2005, 1 904095 67 4
Letters
Martin Schifino, Oliver Streets, Bernard Crick, Christopher Small, Natasha Carver, Alex Simpson, Phil Edwards, Marilyn Francis, Gerrard Roots, Alan Bernheimer, Mike Killingworth, Christopher Prendergast
Colm Tóibín
The Complete Stories by Truman Capote. Random House, 400 pp., $24.95, September 2004, 0 679 64310 9 Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote edited by Gerald Clarke. Random House, 487 pp., $27.95, September 2004, 0 375 50133 9
Retort
Blood for Oil?
Michael Wood
Going Sane by Adam Phillips. Hamish Hamilton, 245 pp., £14.99, February 2005, 0 241 14209 1
Matthew Sweeney
Two Poems
Tessa Hadley
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. Virago, 282 pp., £14.99, April 2005, 1 84408 147 8
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Basingstoke’s Paisleyite
Frank Kermode
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber, 263 pp., £16.99, March 2005, 0 571 22411 3
John Barrell
The Laughter of Triumph: William Hone and the Fight for a Free Press by Ben Wilson. Faber, 455 pp., £16.99, April 2005, 0 571 22470 9
Hsien Min Toh
Poem: ‘Durians’
R.W. Johnson
Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling by Lewis Baston. Sutton, 604 pp., £25, October 2004, 0 7509 2924 3
Peter Campbell
At Kew: The New Alpine House
Hugh Pennington
Return of the Black Death: The World’s Greatest Serial Killer by Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan. Wiley, 310 pp., £16.99, May 2004, 0 470 09000 6 The Great Plague: The Story of London’s Most Deadly Year by Lloyd Moote and Dorothy Moote. Johns Hopkins, 357 pp., £19.95, April 2004, 0 8018 7783 0 Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World’s Most Dangerous Disease by Wendy Orent. Free Press, 276 pp., £17.99, May 2004, 0 7432 3685 8
Adam Kuper
Clueless
Anne Hollander
Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich by Irene Guenther. Berg, 499 pp., £17.99, April 2004, 9781859737170 Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt by Eugenia Paulicelli. Berg, 227 pp., £15.99, February 2004, 1 85973 778 1
Eric Hobsbawm
Diary: An Assembly of Ghosts
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