Contents


  • R.W. Johnson

    • One of Us: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher by Hugo Young
  • Letters

  • Boris Kagarlitsky
    The View from Moscow

  • J.P. Stern

    • Martin Heidegger: Unterwegs zu seiner Biographie by Hugo Ott
  • Sylvia Lawson

    • Daddy, we hardly knew you by Germaine Greer
  • Patrick O’Brian

    • Fire Down Below by William Golding
  • Seamus Heaney
    Poem: ‘Crossings’

  • Patrick Parrinder

    • A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars by D.L. LeMahieu
  • Peter Campbell

    • Living Space: In Fact and Fiction by Philippa Tristram
    • Building Domestic Liberty by Polly Wynn Allen
    • Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John Stilgoe
  • Philippa Tristram

    • William Wordsworth: A Life by Stephen Gill
  • Peter Swaab

    • The Unremarkable Wordsworth by Geoffrey Hartman
    • Wordsworth’s Historical Imagination: The Poetry of Displacement by David Simpson
    • Romanticism in National Context edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich
    • Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age 1780-1830 by Rupert Christiansen
  • Dinah Birch

    • Passing on by Penelope Lively
    • The man who wasn’t there by Pat Barker
    • The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
    • Give them all my love by Gillian Tindall
    • Storm in the Citadel by Kate Saunders
  • Frank Kermode
    Diary

  • Robert Crawford

    • Northlight by Douglas Dunn
    • A Field of Vision by Charles Causley
    • Seeker, Reaper by George Campbell Hay and Archie MacAlister
    • In Through the Head by William McIlvanney
    • The New British Poetry edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D’Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram
    • Complete Poems by Martin Bell, edited by Peter Porter
    • First and Always: Poems for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital edited by Lawrence Sail
    • Birthmarks by Mick Imlah