CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Owen Bennett-Jones
• Terry Eagleton
• Eric Hobsbawm
• R.W. Johnson
• Phillip Knightley
• James Lasdun
• John Lloyd
• Julian Loose
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Christopher Prendergast
• John Sutherland
• E.P. Thompson

Contents

• R.W. Johnson
  Beloved Country

• Letters
  Christopher Price, Terence Hawkes, R. Davies, Dennis Newson, Mark Thompson, Helga Graham, Miles Burrows, Michael Holroyd, C.J.H. O’Brien, Norman Hackett, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, Tim Trengove-Jones, Roy MacGregor-Hastie, Patricia Hunt, Phil Edwards, Jonathan Sawday, Adrian Bowyer

• James Lasdun
  Poem: ‘Erisychthon’

• John Lloyd

  • Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl by Piers Paul Read

• Phillip Knightley

  • Deadly Illusions: The First Book from the KGB Archives by John Costello and Oleg Tsarev

• Eric Hobsbawm

  • Harold Laski: A Political Biography by Michael Newman
  • Harold Laski: A Life on the Left by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman

• E.P. Thompson

  • Political Justice by William Godwin, introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth
  • The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin edited by Mark Philp
  • Political Writings by Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd
  • Memoirs of Wollstonecraft by William Godwin, introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth

• Terry Eagleton

  • The Hand of the Arch-Sinner: Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Brontë edited by Robert Collins

• Andrew O’Hagan

  • Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle

• Julian Loose

  • Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
  • Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
  • The Lights Below by Carl MacDougall

• John Sutherland

  • Air and Fire by Rupert Thomson
  • Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thomson
  • The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson

• Christopher Prendergast

  • In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright

• Owen Bennett-Jones
  Diary