CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bayley
• Patricia Beer
• David Brading
• Alan Brien
• Gordon Burn
• Margaret Anne Doody
• Christopher Hitchens
• Siobhan Kilfeather
• Edna Longley
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Peter Pulzer
• Claude Rawson
• Avi Shlaim
• Stan Smith
• John Sutherland
• Gary Taylor
• Mark Thornton Burnett
• Michael Young

Contents

• Claude Rawson

  • Customs in Common by E.P. Thompson

• Letters
  John Charlton, John Griffith, Philip Raby, Jane Goodall, Peter Kalac, Alan Brownjohn, Gerald Long

• Patricia Beer
  Poem: ‘Footbinding’

• Margaret Anne Doody

  • Women’s Lives and the 18th-Century English Novel by Elizabeth Bergan Brophy
  • Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

• Gary Taylor
  Bardicide

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Poem: ‘‘Expense of Spirit’’

• Peter Pulzer

  • The Singing Revolution: A Political Journey through the Baltic States by Clare Thomson
  • Berlin Journal 1989-90 by Robert Darnton
  • An Estonian Childhood: A Memoir by Tania Alexander

• Avi Shlaim
  Changing Places

• John Sutherland

  • The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope by R.H. Super
  • Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in his World by Richard Mullen
  • Trollope: A Biography by N. John Hall

• Mark Thornton Burnett

  • Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage by François Laroque, translated by Janet Lloyd

• David Brading

  • Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen

• John Bayley

  • Through a Glass Darkly: The life of Patrick Hamilton by Nigel Jones

• Alan Brien

  • Martha Jane and Me: A Girlhood in Wales by Mavis Nicholson
  • Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography

• Michael Young
  Poem: ‘The Metronomic Moon’

• Gordon Burn

  • John Cheever: The Journals

• Christopher Hitchens

  • Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy by Ben Sonnenberg

• Siobhan Kilfeather

  • The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing edited by Seamus Deane

• Edna Longley
  Belfast Diary

• Stan Smith

  • Common Knowledge by John Burnside
  • The Son of the Duke of Nowhere by Philip Gross
  • Bridge Passages by George Szirtes
  • Time Zones by Fleur Adcock
  • Selected Poems by Fleur Adcock
  • Spilt Milk by Sarah Maguire
  • The Sirocco Room by Jamie McKendrick
  • Householder by Gerard Woodward