CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Jonathan Bate
• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• Asa Briggs
• Mary Douglas
• D.J. Enright
• Gavin Ewart
• Mark Ford
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michael Hofmann
• Danny Karlin
• James Lasdun
• Roger Parker
• Peter Pulzer
• Philip Purser
• Ruth Richardson
• Stephen Sackur
• C.K. Stead

Contents

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Thatcher by Peter Clarke
  • The Quiet Rise of John Major by Edward Pearce

• Letters
  Alan Sinfield, John Batchelor, Penny McCarthy, George Watson, Brian Southam, Richard Ollard, Diana Hendry, Bruce Coward, Nicolas Freeling

• Peter Pulzer

  • Die Mauer: Monument of the Century by Wolfgang Georg Fischer and Fritz von der Schulenburg

• Mary Douglas

  • The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking

• D.J. Enright

  • Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir by Heberto Padilla, translated by Alexander Coleman

• Michael Hofmann

  • The Coastguard’s House by Eugenio Montale, translated by Jeremy Reed

• C.K. Stead

  • Antidotes by C.H. Sisson
  • Dog Fox Field by Les Murray
  • True Colours by Neil Powell
  • Eating strawberries in the Necropolis by Michael Hulse

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘The Accomplices’

• Patricia Beer

  • Told in Gath by Max Wright

• John Bayley

  • The Oxford Book of Friendship edited by D.J. Enright and David Rawlinson

• Jonathan Bate

  • Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

• Gavin Ewart
  Two Poems

• Mark Ford

  • The Dylan Companion edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman
  • Bob Dylan: Performing Artist. Vol. I: 1960-73 by Paul Williams
  • Dylan: Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
  • The Bootleg Series: Vols I-III (rare and unreleased) 1961-1991 by Bob Dylan

• Roger Parker

  • Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791 by Volkmar Braunbehrens
  • The Mozart Compendium edited by H.C. Robbins Landon
  • Mozart and Vienna by H.C. Robbins Landon
  • Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue: A Facsimile introduced and transcribed by Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson
  • The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart edited by Neal Zaslaw and William Cowdery

• Asa Briggs

  • The World of the Oratorio by Kurt Pahlen
  • The Making of the Victorian Organ by Nicholas Thistlethwaite

• Ruth Richardson

  • A Paradise out of a Common Field: The Pleasures and Plenty of the Victorian Garden by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards
  • Private Gardens of London by Arabella Lennox-Boyd
  • The Greatest Glasshouse: The Rainforest Recreated edited by Sue Minter
  • Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 by Albion Urdank

• Stephen Sackur
  Khorramshahr Diary

• Danny Karlin

  • The Clopton Hercules by Duncan Sprott
  • Life of a Drum by Carlo Gebler
  • Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman
  • A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
  • A place I’ve never been by David Leavitt

• Philip Purser

  • A German Requiem by Philip Kerr