Cover: Homer Sykes

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Patricia Beer
• A.B. Cooke
• D.J. Enright
• Garret FitzGerald
• Ian Hamilton
• Jane Miller
• Nicholas Mosley
• Valerie Pearl
• Neil Rennie
• Christopher Ricks
• John Sutherland
• Robert Taubman
• John Vincent
• Phillip Whitehead

Contents

• Garret FitzGerald
  Preconditions for an Irish Peace

• Letters
  Stephen Fender, W.L. Webb, N.F. McDowell, Sidney Blackmore, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Michael Neve

• Christopher Ricks

  • Field Work by Seamus Heaney

• D.J. Enright

  • The Pornographer by John McGahern

• A.B. Cooke

  • The Factory of Grievances: Devolved Government in Northern Ireland, 1921-1939 by Patrick Buckland

• A historian of the Liberal Party writes about its lost leader

  • Jeremy Thorpe: A Secret Life by Lewis Chester, Magnus Linklater and David May

• Phillip Whitehead

  • Arguments for Socialism by Tony Benn
  • Socialism without the State by Evan Luard
  • Can Labour Win Again? by Austin Mitchell
  • Enemies of Democracy by Paul McCormick

• Valerie Pearl

  • King Charles II by Antonia Fraser

• Neil Rennie
  Poem: ‘Love and the Aeroplane’

• Robert Taubman

  • The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White

• John Sutherland

  • The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
  • The Four Hundred by Stephen Sheppard

• Jane Miller

  • Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) by Christina Stead

• Ian Hamilton

  • A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow

• Patricia Beer

  • The Intruder by Gillian Tindall
  • Mother Can You Hear Me? by Margaret Forster
  • Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
  • Wild Nights by Emma Tennant

• Nicholas Mosley

  • The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky by Ronald Segal