Cover: David McNeil

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Dinah Birch
• Angela Carter
• Patricia Craig
• Mark Edmundson
• Ruth Fainlight
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• David Gilmour
• Tony Harrison
• Anthony Howard
• John Lanchester
• J.E. McGuire
• Karl Miller
• Rosalind Mitchison
• David Nokes
• Tom Shippey
• Wendy Steiner
• Tatyana Tolstaya

Contents

• John Bayley

  • The Life of Graham Greene. Vol. I: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry

• Letters
  George Wickham, Antoinette Burton, Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Cushing Strout, Richard Crosfield, Hilda Snowden, R.A. Minter

• Anthony Howard

  • By God’s Will: A Portrait of the Sultan of Brunei by Lord Chalfont
  • The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei by James Bartholomew

• David Gilmour

  • Prepared for the worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens

• Angela Carter

  • Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words by Milorad Pavic, translated by Christina Pribicevic-Zoric

• Wendy Steiner

  • Real Presences by George Steiner

• Ruth Fainlight
  Poem: ‘Bouzigues’

• Tony Harrison
  Poem: ‘The Pomegranates of Patmos’

• Mark Edmundson

  • Ruin the sacred truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Harold Bloom
  • Harold Bloom: Towards Historical Rhetorics by Peter de Bolla

• J.E. McGuire

  • The Genesis of the Copernican World by Hans Blumenberg, translated by Robert Wallace

• Tom Shippey

  • Medieval Civilisation 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow
  • The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. Vol. I: 350-950 edited by Robert Fossier, translated by Janet Sondheimer
  • The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
  • Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages by Georges Vigarello, translated by Jean Birrell
  • Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power by Jesse Byock

• Dinah Birch

  • The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Valerie Fildes
  • Women and Marriage in 19th-Century England by Joan Perkin
  • Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660-1760 by Lorna Weatherill
  • Childhood in 19th-Century France: Work, Health and Education among the ‘Classes Populaires’ by Colin Heywood

• David Nokes

  • The Well-Known Troublemaker: A Life of Charlotte Charke by Fidelis Morgan
  • The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama by David Roberts
  • The Complete Lover: Eros, Nature and Artifice in the 18th-Century French Novel by Angelica Goodden

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Antonia Bouis
  • Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women edited by Helena Goscilo

• Tatyana Tolstaya
  Discovering America

• John Lanchester

  • Manchester United: The Betrayal of a Legend by Michael Crick and David Smith
  • Football in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds by David Canter, Miriam Comber and David Uzzell

• Karl Miller
  Diary

• Patricia Craig

  • English Children and their Magazines 1751-1945 by Kirsten Drotner
  • Frank Richards: The Chap behind the Chums by Mary Cadogan
  • A History of Children’s Book Illustration by Joyce Irene Whalley and Tessa Rose Chester
  • Manchester Polytechnic Library of Children’s Books 1840-1939: ‘From Morality to Adventure’ by W.H. Shercliff
  • Children’s Modern First Editions: Their Value to Collectors by Joseph Connolly