Selected Bibliography

  • The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s (2002)
  • Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop (1996)
  • The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 (1996)
  • Benjamin Britten (1992)
  • The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and his Friends (1989)
  • Secret Gardens (1985)
  • The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
  • W.H. Auden: A Biography (1981)
  • Jesus (1980)
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Humphrey Carpenter

In the LRB Archive:

  • All together · 7 December 1989

    • The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues by Dick Heckstall-Smith
    • Mama said there’d be days like these: My Life in the Jazz World by Val Wilmer
    • Lenya: A Life by Donald Spoto

  • Getting on · 18 July 1985

    • In the Dark by R.M. Lamming
    • A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory by Isabel Colegate
    • Midnight Mass by Peter Bowles
    • The Silver Age by James Lasdun
    • The House of Kanze by Nobuko Albery

  • Kiss me, Hardy · 15 November 1984

    • Peeping Tom by Howard Jacobson
    • Watson’s Apology by Beryl Bainbridge
    • The Foreigner by David Plante

Letters

11 January 1990

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