CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• David Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Susannah Clapp
• Russell Davies
• G.R. Elton
• Robert Fisk
• Stuart Hampshire
• Michael Hofmann
• Graham Hough
• Michael Irwin
• Clive James
• Peter Jenkins
• Frank Kermode
• Marghanita Laski
• Hugh Lloyd-Jones
• Thomas McKeown
• David Marquand
• Claude Rawson
• Malise Ruthven
• E.S. Turner
• J.Z. Young

Contents

• David Marquand

  • Breaking the Mould by Ian Bradley

• Letters
  Roy Harris, John Archer, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, James Paradis, Gerald Lynn, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, Alan Hollinghurst, Jonathon Green

• 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