Vol. 15 No. 17 · 9 September 1993

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Vol. 15 No. 17 · 9 September 1993

Ian Hamilton

Rebecca’s Vest: A Memoir by Karl Miller. Hamish Hamilton, 186 pp., £14.99, September 1993, 0 241 13456 0

Letters

Nicola Cufaro Petroni, Frank Kermode, Paul Lawrence Rose, Edward Said, Attila Hoare, Etrenne Lymbery, David Barker, W.G. Shepherd, Liam Mac Cóil, Judith Terry, Freddy Hurdis-Jones, David Townsend, John Roe

Ross McKibbin

Customers of the State

Paul Smith

Entrepreneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain by G.R. Searle. Oxford, 346 pp., £40, March 1993, 0 19 820357 8

Frank Kermode

Tell Them I’m on my Way by Arnold Goodman. Chapmans, 464 pp., £20, August 1993, 1 85592 636 9
Not an Englishman: Conversations with Lord Goodman by David Selbourne. Sinclair-Stevenson, 237 pp., £17.99, August 1993, 1 85619 365 9

Michael Howard

The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping: Case Studies and Comparative Analysis edited by William Durch. St Martin’s, 509 pp., £29.95, May 1993, 0 312 06600 7

Basil Davidson

High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood by Chester Crocker. Norton, 533 pp., £19.95, May 1993, 0 393 03432 1
Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa’s Disputed Nations by Jeremy Harding. Viking, 441 pp., £17.99, May 1993, 0 670 83391 6
Bridging the Zambesi: A Colonial Folly by Landeg White. Macmillan, 233 pp., £40, March 1993, 0 333 55170 2

Malise Ruthven

Fire and Blood: The True Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by David Leppard. Fourth Estate, 182 pp., £5.99, June 1993, 1 85702 166 5
Preacher of Death: The Shocking Inside Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege by Martin King and Marc Breault. Signet, 375 pp., £4.99, May 1993, 0 451 18000 3

Robert Alter

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise. Element, 286 pp., £14.95, November 1992, 0 85230 368 8

Mark Ford

The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward. Faber, 278 pp., £15, August 1993, 0 571 16781 0

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields. Fourth Estate, 361 pp., £12.99, September 1993, 1 85702 154 1

John Bayley

The Life of Ian Fleming by Donald McCormick. Peter Owen, 231 pp., £18.50, July 1993, 0 7206 0888 0

Peter Porter

Poem: ‘Why the barbarians kept us waiting’

Sean Maguire

Diary: Bosnian Serbs and the UN

Michael Wood

Let’s not overthink this

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