At the Fairground
Tom Nairn, 20 March 1997
Republics, Nations and Tribes
by Martin Thom.
Verso, 359 pp., £45, July 1995,1 85984 020 5 Show More
by Martin Thom.
Verso, 359 pp., £45, July 1995,
“... The Independent on Sunday of 22 December last weighed in with a mere forty crystal-gazers, from Ian Angell, ‘darling of the doom-and-gloom conference circuit’, down to Theodore Zeldin’s ‘persuasively touchy-feely manifesto’, An Intimate History of Humanity. Yet quite a few gloomsters were not checked in, notably éminence noire Conor Cruise ... ”