Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• John Bossy
• Malcolm Bull
• Michael Burns
• W.B. Carnochan
• Terry Castle
• Peter Clarke
• Robert Crawford
• Jenny Diski
• Terry Eagleton
• Robert Fisk
• Angelica Goodden
• Christopher Hitchens
• Rosemary Horrox
• Claudia Johnson
• R.W. Johnson
• J.G.A. Pocock
• Alan Ross
• E.S. Turner
• Susan Wicks

Contents

• Peter Clarke

  • Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 edited by Anthony Seldon and Stuart Ball

• Letters
  Boris Ford, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Pearson, David Sylvester, Tom Rivers, Kenneth Hoyle, Gerald Long, David Townsend, Keith Flett, Nicolas Walter, Kiffin Rockwell, Bob Grumman

• R.W. Johnson

  • Fool’s Gold: The Story of North Sea Oil by Christopher Harvie

• Terry Eagleton

  • William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy

• Christopher Hitchens

  • The Philby Files. The Secret Life of the Master Spy: KGB Archives Revealed by Genrikh Borovik, edited by Phillip Knightley
  • The Fifth Man by Roland Perry
  • Treason in the Blood: H. St John Philby, Kim Philby and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown
  • My Five Cambridge Friends by Yuri Modin
  • Looking for Mr Nobody: The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees by Jenny Rees

• Malcolm Bull

  • The Holocaust in Historical Context. Vol. I: The Holocaust and Mass Death before the Modern Age by Steven Katz

• Robert Fisk
  Remaining Issues

• Alan Ross
  Two Poems

• E.S. Turner

  • Edward Lear: A Biography by Peter Levi

• Terry Castle

  • Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock by Eliza Fenwick, edited by Isobel Grundy

• J.G.A. Pocock

  • Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vols I-VI edited by David Womersley

• Angelica Goodden

  • Madame du Deffand and Her World by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh
  • Lettres à Voltaire by Madame du Deffand, edited by Chantal Thomas

• W.B. Carnochan

  • Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830 by Claude Rawson

• John Bossy

  • William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell
  • The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity by Debora Kuller Shuger

• Susan Wicks
  Poem: ‘My Mother is Dispersed’

• Rosemary Horrox

  • Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted by Susan Reynolds

• Robert Crawford

  • Dock Leaves by Hugo Williams
  • Spring Forest by Geoffrey Lehmann
  • Everything is Strange by Frank Kuppner
  • The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie

• Claudia Johnson

  • Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

• Jenny Diski
  Diary

• Michael Burns

  • Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives edited by Aubrey Manning and James Serpell
  • The Beast in the Boudoir: Pet-Keeping in 19th-Century Paris by Kathleen Kete