Cover: David Gentleman

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Beatrix Campbell
• Peter Campbell
• Alistair Elliot
• Paul Foot
• Brian Harrison
• Seamus Heaney
• R.W. Johnson
• Ryszard Kapuściński
• Carolyn Steedman
• Michael Stewart
• John Sutherland
• Edward Timms
• E.S. Turner

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • Traitors: The Labyrinths of Treason by Chapman Pincher
  • The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist Subversion 1939-51 by Anthony Glees
  • Freedom of Information – Freedom of the Individual? by Clive Ponting, John Ranelagh, Michael Zander and Simon Lee, edited by Julia Neuberger

• Letters
  Edna Longley, Clive Wilmer, John Pikoulis, Richard Stern, Lucio Ruotolo

• Ryszard Kapuściński
  Poem: ‘At an Exhibition: ‘The Polish Peasant in Photographs to 1944’’

• Paul Foot

  • Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan by Bernard Donoughue
  • Time and Chance by James Callaghan

• Michael Stewart

  • Kinnock by Michael Leapman
  • The Thatcher Years: A Decade of Revolution in British Politics by John Cole
  • Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus? by Dennis Kavanagh
  • The New Right: The Counter-Revolution in Political, Social and Economic Thought by David Green

• Brian Harrison

  • Labour People, Leaders and Lieutenants: Hardie to Kinnock by Kenneth O. Morgan
  • J. Ramsay MacDonald by Austen Morgan
  • Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical by Patricia Romero
  • Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst by Barbara Castle

• Edward Timms

  • Rosa Luxemburg: A Life by Elzbieta Ettinger

• John Bayley

  • The Faber Book of Diaries edited by Simon Brett
  • A Lasting Relationship: Parents and Children over Three Centuries by Linda Pollock

• Seamus Heaney
  Sounding Auden

• E.S. Turner

  • The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
  • Worlds Apart: Travels in War and Peace by Gavin Young

• John Sutherland

  • Witchcraft by Nigel Williams
  • Without Falling by Leslie Dick
  • Outlaws by George V. Higgins

• Beatrix Campbell

  • Forever England by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Nottinghamshire by Alan Sillitoe
  • Left behind: Journeys into British Politics by David Selbourne

• Carolyn Steedman
  Diary

• Peter Campbell

  • J.M.W. Turner: ‘A Wonderful Range of Mind’ by John Gage
  • Turner in his Time by Andrew Wilton
  • Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence by Cecilia Powell
  • The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner by Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll
  • The Turner Collection in the Clore Gallery
  • Turner Watercolours by Andrew Wilton

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Some Scottish Music’