Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Bate
• T.J. Binyon
• Marilyn Butler
• Peter Campbell
• Christopher Driver
• Gavin Ewart
• Keith Griffin
• Brian Harrison
• D.A.N. Jones
• Walter Kendrick
• Frank Kermode
• David Lodge
• Blake Morrison
• Conrad Russell
• C.H. Sisson
• John Sutherland
• A.J.P. Taylor
• Emma Tennant
• E.S. Turner
• Barbara Wootton

Contents

• Marilyn Butler

  • The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765 edited by David Vaisey
  • John Clare’s Autobiographical Writings edited by Eric Robinson
  • John Clare: The Journals, Essays, and the Journey from Essex edited by Anne Tibble
  • The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare edited by Margaret Grainger
  • John Clare and the Folk Tradition by George Deacon

• Letters
  Randall Rothenberg, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, William Milne, Laura Cumming, Editor, ‘London Review of Books’, R.H. Popkin, Sally, Editors, ‘London Review’

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘‘John Betjeman: A Life in Pictures’’

• Christopher Driver

  • The Fourth Reich by Magnus Linklater, Isabel Hilton and Neal Ascherson
  • I didn’t say goodbye by Claudine Vegh

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘Xerox’

• Barbara Wootton

  • The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. III: ‘The Power to Alter Things’ edited by Norman MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie
  • Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists by Lisanne Radice

• Brian Harrison

  • Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism 1839-1939 by Margaret Forster
  • Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Movement 1900-1918 by Les Garner
  • Women First: The Female Tradition in English Physical Education 1880-1980 by Sheila Fletcher
  • A Woman’s Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940 by Elizabeth Roberts

• Keith Griffin

  • The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience by William Shawcross

• D.A.N. Jones

  • The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guinness and Catherine Guinness

• E.S. Turner

  • Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards

• T.J. Binyon

  • Agatha Christie by Janet Morgan

• David Lodge
  Poem: ‘A Martian goes to College’

• Frank Kermode

  • Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a Positivist by Martha Vogeler
  • Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian by Noël Annan

• C.H. Sisson

  • The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters: Correspondence of George Lyttelton and Rupert Hart-Davis. edited by Rupert Hart-Davis

• Jonathan Bate

  • The Oxford Book of War Poetry edited by Jon Stallworthy
  • Secret Destinations by Charles Causley
  • Fast Forward by Peter Porter
  • Dark Glasses by Blake Morrison

• John Sutherland

  • Wild Berries by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Antonia Bovis
  • The Burn by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by Michael Glenny
  • Fellow Travellers by T.C. Worsley
  • The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
  • The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth
  • The Set-Up by Vladimir Volkoff, translated by Alan Sheridan

• Walter Kendrick

  • Getting to know the General: The Story of an Involvement by Graham Greene
  • Saints, Sinners and Comedians: The Novels of Graham Greene by Roger Sharrock
  • Travels in Greeneland: The Cinema of Graham Greene by Quentin Falk
  • The Other Man: Conversations with Graham Greene by Marie-Françoise Allain

• Emma Tennant
  The German in the Wood

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • William Kent by Michael Wilson
  • James Gibbs by Terry Friedman
  • Sir John Soane, Architect by Dorothy Stroud
  • The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable by Graham Reynolds

• Conrad Russell

  • The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester edited by Keith Walker