The Nuclear Age by Tim O’Brien.
Collins, 312 pp., £10.95, March 1986, 0 00 223015 1Show More Acts of Faith by Hans Koning.
Gollancz, 182 pp., £8.95, February 1986, 9780575037441Show More A Funny Dirty Little War by Osvaldo Soriano, translated by Nick Caistor.
Readers International, 108 pp., £7.95, March 1986, 0 930523 17 2Show More Maps by Nuruddin Farah.
Picador, 246 pp., £3.50, March 1986, 0 330 28710 9Show More Tennis and the Masai by Nicholas Best.
Hutchinson, 176 pp., £8.95, March 1986, 0 09 163770 8Show More Dear Shadows by Max Egremont.
Secker, 310 pp., £9.95, March 1986, 0 436 14160 4Show More Show More“... to terrorise, absolute terror terrorises absolutely. Th-th-that’s all, folks!’ The narrator, William Cowling, fails to become a terrorist, since he is too frightened, but his girlfriend, Sarah Strouch, passes the test and, by 1980, she is saying: ‘Terrorism is a state of mind, but nobody gets terrified anymore.’ Some two hundred pages later, she is ...”