Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Ronan Bennett
• Marilyn Butler
• Terry Castle
• Peter Clarke
• Don Coles
• James Davidson
• Raymond Friel
• Michael Gorra
• Sheila Hale
• Philip Kitcher
• H.C.G. Matthew
• Roy Porter
• Tim Radford
• Lorna Sage
• F.M.L. Thompson

Contents

• Marilyn Butler

  • Jane Austen : A Life by David Nokes
  • Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

• Letters
  Murray Sayle, Jeffrey Masten, Anna Crowe, David Ames Curtis, David Turner, Peter Kilander, Paul Whittaker, Ronald Phillips, Michael Dibdin, Gerald Nason, S.E. Yousoufian

• James Davidson

  • Apollonios Rhodios: The Argonautika translated by Peter Green

• Don Coles
  Poem: ‘Kingdom’

• Terry Castle

  • The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water by Kate Summerscale

• Tim Radford

  • Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
  • Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
  • Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
  • Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy

• Philip Kitcher

  • Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead by Gina Kolata
  • Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World by Lee Silver

• Raymond Friel
  Poem: ‘The Halt’

• F.M.L. Thompson

  • Alternative Agriculture: A History from the Black Death to the Present Day by Joan Thirsk

• Roy Porter

  • English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Davies
  • The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan Macfarlane

• Lorna Sage

  • Acts of Mutiny by Derek Beavan

• Michael Gorra

  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto in Fistfight Heaven by Sherman Alexie
  • Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
  • Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie

• Peter Clarke

  • Major: A Political Life by Anthony Seldon

• Ronan Bennett

  • Man of War, Man of Peace? The Unauthorised Biography of Gerry Adams by David Sharrock and Mark Devenport

• H.C.G. Matthew
  The British Way: devolution

• Sheila Hale
  Diary: dysphasia