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Vol. 3 No. 18 · 1 October 1981

  • David Marquand

    • Breaking the Mould by Ian Bradley

  • Letters

  • David Butler
    Problems for the SDP

  • Peter Jenkins

    • Arguments for Democracy by Tony Benn, edited by Chris Mullin
    • Manifesto by Francis Cripps, John Griffith, Frances Morrell, Jimmy Reid and Peter Townsend

  • Frank Kermode

    • The Hour of our Death by Philippe Ariès, translated by Helen Weaver

  • G.R. Elton

    • The Mind and Method of the Historian by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Sian Reynolds and Ben Reynolds

  • Thomas McKeown

    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings translated by Eisei Ishikawa and David Swain

  • Malise Ruthven

    • Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V.S. Naipaul
    • Muslim Society by Ernest Gellner

  • Robert Fisk

    • The Struggle for Afghanistan by Nancy Newell and Richard Newell
    • Afghanistan by John Griffiths

  • Graham Hough

    • Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich, translated by Richard Lourie
    • The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore
    • Silver’s City by Maurice Leitch
    • The Christmas Tree by Jennifer Johnston

  • Claude Rawson

    • The Sinking of the Titanic by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    • Paul Clean: Poems translated by Michael Hamburger
    • Talk about the Last Poet by Charles Johnston

  • Clive James
    Poem: ‘To Craig Raine: A Letter from Biarritz’

  • Russell Davies

    • Running Free by Sebastian Coe and David Miller

  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones

    • The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank Turner

  • Stuart Hampshire

    • Machiavelli by Quentin Skinner
    • The Prince and Other Political Writings by Niccolo Machiavelli, translated by Bruce Penman

  • J.Z. Young

    • The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour edited by David McFarland

  • Marghanita Laski

    • The Promise of Happiness by Fred Inglis
    • The Child and the Book by Nicholas Tucker
    • The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction by J.S. Bratton
    • Children’s Literature, Vol. IX edited by Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, Milla Riggio and Barbara Rosen
    • The ‘Signal’ Approach to Children’s Books edited by Nancy Chambers

  • Peter Campbell

    • Early Disorder by Rebecca Josephs
    • A Star for the Latecomer by Bonnie Zindel
    • Catherine loves by Timothy Ireland
    • Jacob have I loved by Katherine Paterson

  • Michael Irwin

    • George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

  • Susannah Clapp

    • Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson

  • Michael Hofmann
    Two Poems

  • E.S. Turner

    • Nella Last’s War: A Mother’s Diary, 1939-45 edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming