Cover: Varvara Stepanova

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ian Aitken
• John Bayley
• Humphrey Carpenter
• Linda Colley
• Robert Crawford
• Allen Curnow
• Stephen Fender
• Penelope Fitzgerald
• Paul Foot
• Mark Ford
• Anthony Howard
• Brad Leithauser
• Hilary Mantel
• Walter Nash
• Roger Parker
• Tom Shippey
• J.P. Stern
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Ian Aitken

  • Sunrise: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Best-Selling Soaraway ‘Sun’ by Larry Lamb

• Letters
  David Craig, Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster, Craig Raine, Richard Poirier, Walter Hayes, Jean MacGibbon, Kate Cohen, David Griffiths, C.K. Stead, Bernard O’Donoghue, Editors, ‘London Review’, Keith Flett

• Anthony Howard

  • The Crockford’s File: Gareth Bennett and the Death of the Anglican Mind by William Oddie
  • Absent Friends by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

• Paul Foot
  Inside the system

• Linda Colley

  • The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1788 by John Brewer
  • Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution by John Gascoigne
  • Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World by C.A. Bayly

• Tom Shippey

  • Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850 by Roy Porter
  • Popular Errors by Laurent Joubert and Gregory David de Rocher
  • Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe by Piero Camporesi, translated by David Gentilcore
  • Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics and History by Mary Kilbourne Matossian

• John Bayley

  • Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
  • Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics by John Williams
  • Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays by Bradford Keyes Mudge

• Roger Parker

  • Franz Liszt. Vol. II: The Weimar Years 1848-1861 by Alan Walker
  • Franz Liszt: A Chronicle of his Life in Pictures and Documents by Ernst Burger, translated by Stewart Spencer

• Humphrey Carpenter

  • The Safest Place in the World: A Personal History of British Rhythm and Blues by Dick Heckstall-Smith
  • Mama said there’d be days like these: My Life in the Jazz World by Val Wilmer
  • Lenya: A Life by Donald Spoto

• Stephen Fender

  • Paul Robeson by Martin Bauml Duberman

• Michael Wood

  • Silent Partner by Jonathan Kellerman
  • ‘Murder will out’: The Detective in Fiction by T.J. Binyon
  • Devices and Desires by P.D. James
  • Killshot by Elmore Leonard
  • Trust by George V. Higgins
  • Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

• Hilary Mantel

  • Life Lines: Politics and Health 1986-1988 by Edwina Currie
  • My Turn by Nancy Reagan and William Novak
  • Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis by Nigel Dempster

• Mark Ford

  • In Trouble Again: A Journey between the Orinoco and the Amazon by Redmond O’Hanlon
  • Our Grandmothers’ Drums: A Portrait of Rural African Life and Culture by Mark Hudson
  • Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma by Charles Nicholl

• Allen Curnow
  Poem: ‘A Scrap-Book’

• Walter Nash

  • The Guinness Book of Records 1990 edited by Donald McFarlan
  • The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature edited by Francis Spufford

• Penelope Fitzgerald

  • True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Robert and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend
  • CounterBlasts No 9: Mr Bevan’s Dream by Sue Townsend

• Brad Leithauser
  Poem: ‘Peninsular’

• J.P. Stern
  Diary

• Robert Crawford

  • Perduta Gente by Peter Reading
  • Letting in the rumour by Gillian Clarke
  • Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman by Grace Nichols
  • Studying Grosz on the Bus by John Lucas
  • The Old Noise of Truth by Joan Downar