Comprehensible Disorders

David Craig

  • Before the oil ran out: Britain 1977-86 by Ian Jack
    Secker, 271 pp, £9.95, June 1987, ISBN 0 436 22020 2
  • In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin Muir by George Marshall
    Scottish Academic Press, 184 pp, £12.50, May 1987, ISBN 0 7073 0469 5

The item which seems set to stay longest with me from Ian Jack’s alert and precisely-written record of British life in the Seventies and Eighties comes from the opening memoir of his father, which supplies a deeper soil, or subsoil, to the son’s coverage of more recent matters for the Sunday Times and (since Wapping) the Observer:

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