Cover: Mike Abrahams and Laurie Sparham

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Fleur Adcock
• David Biale
• David Cannadine
• Peter Clarke
• Linda Colley
• D.J. Enright
• Barbara Everett
• John Horgan
• R.W. Johnson
• Douglas Johnson
• Colin McGinn
• Jane Miller
• Les Murray
• Philip Purser
• John Sutherland
• Hugo Williams

Contents

• R.W. Johnson

  • Prepared for the worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
  • Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies by Christopher Hitchens

• Letters
  John Lucas, Ian Gilmour, David Seddon, Jean MacGibbon, Bruno Nightingale, Julian Symons, Barbara Everett, Robert Fraser, James Wood

• Philip Purser

  • Sir Huge: The Life of Huw Wheldon by Paul Ferris

• Douglas Johnson

  • Little Gregory by Charles Penwarden

• John Horgan

  • Stolen Years: Before and After Guildford by Paul Hill and Ronan Bennett
  • Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon
  • Cage Eleven by Gerry Adams
  • The Poisoned Tree: The untold truth about the Police conspiracy to discredit John Stalker and destroy me by Kevin Taylor and Keith Mumby

• Hugo Williams
  Two Poems

• Linda Colley

  • A History of Private Life. Vol IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War edited by Michelle Perrot, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
  • Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850 by Alain Corbin, translated by Alan Sheridan

• David Cannadine

  • Queen Victoria: Gender and Power by Dorothy Thompson

• Jane Miller

  • The rock cried out by Ellen Douglas
  • Can’t quit you, baby by Ellen Douglas

• David Biale

  • The False Prophet. Rabbi Meir Kahane: From FBI Informant to Knesset Member by Robert Friedman

• Colin McGinn

  • Essays in political Philosophy by R.G. Collingwood, edited by David Boucher
  • The Social and Political Thought of R.G. Collingwood by David Boucher

• Fleur Adcock
  Poem: ‘Summer in Bucharest’

• D.J. Enright

  • The Don Giovanni Book: Myths of Seduction and Betrayal edited by Jonathan Miller

• Barbara Everett
  The Fatness of Falstaff

• Peter Clarke
  Diary

• John Sutherland

  • Lying together by D.M. Thomas
  • The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
  • Solomon Gursky was here by Mordecai Richler
  • Death of the Soap Queen by Peter Prince

• Les Murray
  Poem: ‘Endpiece’