Cover: Roman Vishniac

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• William Boyd
• John Hedley Brooke
• Denis Donoghue
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Roy Harris
• Jose Harris
• Philip Horne
• Graham Hough
• Samuel Hynes
• Martin Kemp
• Peter Medawar
• Blake Morrison
• Paul Muldoon
• Michael Neve
• Christopher Ricks
• J.I.M. Stewart
• A.J.P. Taylor
• E.S. Turner
• Mary-Kay Wilmers
• Barbara Wootton

Contents

• Christopher Ricks

  • Beyond the Pale: Sir Oswald Mosley 1933-1980 by Nicholas Mosley
  • Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933 by Nicholas Mosley

• Letters
  Geoffrey Pearson, E.M. Thornton, Michael Neve, Ian Jack

• Blake Morrison
  Poem: ‘A Child in Winter’

• Barbara Wootton

  • The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Vol. II: All the Good Things in Life edited by Norman MacKenzie and Jeanne MacKenzie

• Jose Harris

  • John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky

• Paul Muldoon
  Two Poems

• Mary-Kay Wilmers

  • Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning

• Peter Medawar

  • The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

• Roy Harris

  • A Dictionary of Mottoes by L.G. Pine
  • Newspeak: A Dictionary of Jargon by Jonathon Green
  • The Oxford Miniguide to English Usage by E.S.C. Weiner
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English: Volume II by A.P. Cowrie, R. Mackin and I.R. McCaig
  • A Dictionary of the Teenage Revolution and its Aftermath by Kenneth Hudson
  • A Dictionary of Catch-Phrases by Eric Partridge

• Graham Hough

  • Sebastian or Ruling Passions by Lawrence Durrell
  • Woman Beware Woman by Emma Tennant
  • Queen of Stones by Emma Tennant
  • Blue Rise by Rebecca Hill
  • Here to get my baby out of jail by Louise Shivers

• Denis Donoghue

  • The Collected Letters of John Millington Synge. Vol. I: 1871-1907 edited by Ann Saddlemyer

• Samuel Hynes

  • Roy Campbell: A Critical Biography by Peter Alexander
  • The Selected Poems of Roy Campbell edited by Peter Alexander

• J.I.M. Stewart

  • Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson edited by Kerry McSweeny

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson and Sally Beauman
  • The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Anita Brookner
  • The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy 1896-1967 by Violet Powell

• Michael Neve

  • Out of Order by Frank Johnson
  • Frank Johnson’s Election Year by Frank Johnson
  • Enthusiasms by Bernard Levin
  • Poem of the Year by Clive James
  • The Original Michael Frayn by Michael Frayn

• Martin Kemp

  • Collected Essays: Vols I and II by Frances Yates

• John Hedley Brooke

  • Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English School of Geology, 1814-1849 by Nicolaas Rupke

• William Boyd

  • The Africans by David Lamb
  • African Princess by Princess Elizabeth of Toro
  • The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuściński, translated by William Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowsa-Brand

• A.J.P. Taylor
  Diary

• Philip Horne

  • The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius by Donald Spoto
  • Howard Hawks, Storyteller by Gerald Mast

• E.S. Turner

  • Just William, More William, William Again, William the Fourth by Richmal Crompton and Thomas Henry