Vol. 6 No. 16 · 6 September 1984
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Vol. 6 No. 16 · 6 September 1984
Michael Stewart
The Miners’ Strike
Letters
Mary Midgley, John May, Shaun Whiteside, David Simpson, Ernst Bammel, Jack Mitchell, Nicky Bird
Barbara Everett
A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Letters and Diaries by Barbara Pym, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym. Macmillan, 320 pp., £12.95, July 1984, 0 333 34995 4
Michael Mason
The Bourgeois Experience. Victoria to Freud Vol. I: Education of the Senses by Peter Gay. Oxford, 608 pp., £18.50, March 1984, 0 19 503352 3 Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd by Polly Longsworth. Farrar, Straus, 449 pp., £18.50, September 1984, 0 374 10716 5 The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds edited by Phyllis Grosskurth. Hutchinson, 319 pp., £14.95, May 1984, 0 09 154170 0
John Bayley
The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol. V: 1936-1941 edited by Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie. Chatto, 402 pp., £17.50, June 1984, 0 7012 0566 0 Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood by Angelica Garnett. Chatto, 181 pp., £9.95, August 1984, 0 7011 2821 6
Alan Brien
Hype by Steven Aronson. Hutchinson, 198 pp., £5.95, May 1984, 0 09 156251 1 Automatic Vaudeville by John Lahr. Heinemann, 241 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 434 40188 9 Broadway Babies: The People who made the American Musical by Ethan Mordden. Oxford, 244 pp., £19, August 1984, 0 19 503345 0
R.W. Johnson
The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the 20th Century edited by Christopher Andrew and David Dilks. Macmillan, 300 pp., £16.95, July 1984, 0 333 36864 9
Tom Paulin
Two Poems
Keith Kyle
Cyprus by Christopher Hitchens. Quartet, 192 pp., £8.95, June 1984, 0 7043 2436 9 The Cyprus Dispute and the Birth of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus by Necati Ertekun. K. Rustem, Nicosia, PO Box 239, Lefkosa, via Mersin 10, Turkey, 507 pp., £12.50
Fleur Adcock
Poem: ‘The Keepsake’
Jonathan Barnes
Antigones by George Steiner. Oxford, 326 pp., £15, June 1984, 0 19 812665 4
D.A.N. Jones
Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic by David Bromwich. Oxford, 450 pp., £19.50, March 1984, 0 19 503343 4 William Godwin: Philosopher, Novelist, Revolutionary by Peter Marshall. Yale, 496 pp., £14.95, June 1984, 0 521 24386 6 Burke, Paine, Godwin and the Revolution Controversy edited by Marilyn Butler. Cambridge, 280 pp., £25, June 1984, 0 521 24386 6
Clive James
Poem: ‘Reflections on a Cardboard Box’
John Sutherland
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard. Gollancz, 287 pp., £8.95, September 1984, 0 575 03483 1 Enterprise Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov, translated by Charles Rongle, edited by Loren Graham and Richard Stites. Indiana, 266 pp., $22.50, June 1984, 0 253 17350 7 Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. Cape, 184 pp., £7.95, September 1984, 0 224 02238 5 Conversations in Another Room by Gabriel Josipovici. Methuen, 121 pp., £7.95, August 1984, 0 413 55930 0 An Affair on the Appian Way by Michael Levey. Hamish Hamilton, 219 pp., £8.95, August 1984, 0 241 11315 6
Tam Dalyell
Diary: Argentina in 1984
Blake Morrison
Poems of Science edited by John Heath-Stubbs and Phillips Salman. Penguin, 328 pp., £4.95, June 1984, 0 14 042317 6 The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt. Faber, 92 pp., £4, April 1984, 0 571 13269 3 The Ice Factory by Philip Gross. Faber, 62 pp., £3.95, June 1984, 0 571 13217 0 Venus and the Rain by Medbh McGuckian. Oxford, 57 pp., £4.50, June 1984, 0 19 211962 1 Saying hello at the station by Selima Hill. Chatto, 48 pp., £2.95, June 1984, 0 7011 2788 0 Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead. Polygon, 159 pp., £2.95, May 1984, 0 904919 80 3 News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of West Indian-British Poetry edited by James Berry. Chatto, 212 pp., £4.95, June 1984, 9780701127978 Human Rites: Selected Poems 1970-1982 by E.A. Markham. Anvil, 127 pp., £7.95, May 1984, 0 85646 112 1 Midsummer by Derek Walcott. Faber, 79 pp., £3.95, July 1984, 0 571 13180 8
C.L.R. James
Grenada: Revolution, Invasion and Aftermath by Hugh O’Shaughnessy. Hamish Hamilton, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 241 11290 7 Grenada: Revolution and Invasion by Anthony Payne, Paul Sutton and Tony Thorndike. Croom Helm, 233 pp., £17.95, May 1984, 0 7099 2080 6
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