Vol. 7 No. 19 · 7 November 1985

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Vol. 7 No. 19 · 7 November 1985

Richard Poirier

The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession edited by Daniel Aaron. Harvard, 1661 pp., £35.95, March 1986, 0 674 45445 6

Letters

Eric Griffiths, Martin Dodsworth, Patricia Craig, Anthony Pagden

Mary-Kay Wilmers

The Letters of Ann Fleming edited by Mark Amory. Collins, 448 pp., £16.50, October 1985, 0 00 217059 0

Paul Addison

The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955 by John Colville. Hodder, 796 pp., £14.95, September 1985, 0 340 38296 1

Clive James

London Reviews edited by Nicholas Spice. Chatto, 222 pp., £5.95, October 1985, 0 7011 2988 3
The New Review Anthology edited by Ian Hamilton. Heinemann, 320 pp., £12.95, October 1985, 0 434 31330 0
Night and Day edited by Christopher Hawtree, by Graham Greene. Chatto, 277 pp., £12.95, November 1985, 0 07 011296 7
Lilliput goes to war edited by Kaye Webb. Hutchinson, 288 pp., £10.95, September 1985, 9780091617608
Penguin New Writing: 1940-1950 edited by John Lehmann and Roy Fuller. Penguin, 496 pp., September 1985, 0 14 007484 8

Gabriele Annan

Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven Aronson. Gollancz, 473 pp., £10.95, October 1985, 0 575 03738 5

Karl Miller

Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, edited with an introduction by Angus Ross. Viking, 1533 pp., £19.95, August 1985, 0 670 80829 6
Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas by Lady Louisa Stuart, edited by Jill Rubenstein. Scottish Academic Press, 106 pp., £9.50, August 1985, 0 7073 0358 3

Pat Rogers

Memoirs of King George II: Vols I, II and III by Horace Walpole, edited by John Brooke. Yale, 248 pp., £65, June 1985, 0 300 03197 1

John Bayley

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner. Weidenfeld, 417 pp., £16.95, October 1985, 0 297 78408 0

Peter Campbell

Robert Capa by Richard Whelan. Faber, 315 pp., £15, October 1985, 0 571 13661 3
Robert Capa: Photographs edited by Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan. Faber, 242 pp., £15, October 1985, 0 571 13660 5

Michael Holroyd

Mrs Webb and Mrs Woolf

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin. Oxford, 281 pp., £12.95, September 1985, 0 19 811728 0

Denis Donoghue

Selected Poems by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 124 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 9780856355950
Collected Poems: 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg. Viking, 837 pp., £16.95, April 1985, 0 670 80683 8
Instant Chronicles: A Life by D.J. Enright. Oxford, 58 pp., £4.50, April 1985, 9780019211970
Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan. Carcanet, 139 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 85635 596 8
Selected Poems by Jeffrey Wainwright. Carcanet, 79 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 85635 598 4
Selected Poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet, 112 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 85635 594 1
The Price of Stone by Richard Murphy. Faber, 92 pp., £4, May 1985, 0 571 13568 4
Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith. Carcanet, 121 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 85635 597 6
Selected Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Carcanet, 95 pp., £2.95, April 1985, 0 85635 585 2
From the Irish by James Simmons. Blackstaff, 78 pp., £3.95, May 1985, 0 85640 331 8

Selima Hill

Two Poems

Conrad Russell

F.W. Maitland by G.R. Elton. Weidenfeld, 118 pp., £12.95, June 1985, 0 297 78614 8
Renaissance Essays by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Secker, 312 pp., £15, July 1985, 0 436 42511 4
History, Society and the Churches: Essays in Honour of Owen Chadwick edited by Derek Beales and Geoffrey Best. Cambridge, 335 pp., £30, May 1985, 0 521 25486 8

John Sutherland

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. Cape, 269 pp., £9.50, October 1985, 0 224 02847 2
A Family Madness by Thomas Keneally. Hodder, 315 pp., £9.95, September 1985, 0 340 38449 2
A Storm from Paradise by Stuart Hood. Carcanet, 188 pp., £8.95, September 1985, 0 85635 582 8
Samarkand by John Murray. Aidan Ellis, 255 pp., £8.95, May 1985, 0 85628 151 4
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo. Bantam, 410 pp., £9.95, May 1985, 0 593 01001 9
Putting the boot in by Dan Kavanagh. Cape, 192 pp., £8.95, August 1985, 0 224 02332 2

Robert Walshe

Diary: Bumping into Beckett

William Bedford

Story: ‘Afternoons’

Julie Davidson

Henry Root’s A-Z of Women by William Donaldson. Weidenfeld, 180 pp., £7.95, July 1985, 0 297 78593 1

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