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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Dinah Birch
• Rose Boyt
• Peter Campbell
• Neil Corcoran
• Graham Coster
• Alistair Elliot
• Paul Foot
• Ian Hamilton
• Philip Horne
• Frank Kermode
• Stuart Macintyre
• Karl Miller
• Wendy Steiner
• John Sutherland
• Julian Symons
• Claire Tomalin
• Stephen Wall

Contents

• John Bayley

  • The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and his Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
  • Osbert: A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster by Richard Boston
  • Ackerley: A Life of J.R. Ackerley by Peter Parker

• Letters
  M.R. Meadmore, J.R. Pole, Mark Wainwright, Keith Norman, Nicholas Roe, G.O. Jones, Editors, ‘London Review’, David Mills

• Ian Hamilton

  • Wartime: Understanding and Behaviour in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
  • War like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties by Andrew Sinclair

• Julian Symons

  • London Fields by Martin Amis

• Wendy Steiner

  • Waverley Place by Susan Brownmiller

• Peter Campbell

  • A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture by HRH The Prince of Wales
  • The Prince of Wales: Right or Wrong? An architect replies by Maxwell Hutchinson

• Rose Boyt
  Can you feel it?

• Stuart Macintyre

  • The Oxford History of Autralia. Vol III: 1860-1900 by Beverley Kingston
  • The Road from Coorain: An Australian Memoir by Jill Ker Conway
  • A Secret Country by John Pilger
  • Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia’s Past edited by Stephen Nicholas

• Neil Corcoran

  • Manila Envelope by James Fenton
  • New Selected Poems by Richard Murphy
  • The Mirror Wall by Richard Murphy
  • Selected Poems by Eavan Boland
  • The Accumulation of Small Acts of Kindness by Selima Hill

• John Sutherland
  New Ground for the Book Trade

• Karl Miller

  • Calm at Sunset, Calm at Dawn by Paul Watkins
  • Blood and Water by Patrick McGrath
  • The Grotesque by Patrick McGrath

• Stephen Wall

  • The Trick of It by Michael Frayn
  • The Long Lost Journey by Jennifer Potter
  • Falling by Colin Thubron
  • Coming to Light by Elspeth Davie
  • A Careless Widow by V.S. Pritchett

• Dinah Birch

  • People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning by Raymond Williams
  • The Politics of Modernism by Raymond Williams
  • A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble

• Frank Kermode

  • Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare’s Tragedies by Barbara Everett
  • ‘Timon of Athens’ by A.D. Nuttall

• Paul Foot

  • The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family by William St Clair

• Claire Tomalin

  • The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vols I-VII edited by Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler

• Alistair Elliot
  Poem: ‘Recognition’

• Philip Horne

  • The Pale Companion by Andrew Motion

• Graham Coster
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
  • Buffalo Afternoon by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
  • The Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch