Eric Hobsbawm

A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Thatcher by Peter Clarke
The Quiet Rise of John Major by Edward Pearce

Letters

Alan Sinfield, John Batchelor, Penny McCarthy, George Watson, Brian Southam, Richard Ollard, Diana Hendry, Bruce Coward, Nicolas Freeling

Peter Pulzer

Die Mauer: Monument of the Century by Wolfgang Georg Fischer and Fritz von der Schulenburg

Mary Douglas

The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking

D.J. Enright

Self-Portrait of the Other: A Memoir by Heberto Padilla, translated by Alexander Coleman

Michael Hofmann

The Coastguard’s House by Eugenio Montale, translated by Jeremy Reed

C.K. Stead

Antidotes by C.H. Sisson
Dog Fox Field by Les Murray
True Colours by Neil Powell
Eating strawberries in the Necropolis by Michael Hulse

James Lasdun

Poem: ‘The Accomplices’

Patricia Beer

Told in Gath by Max Wright

John Bayley

The Oxford Book of Friendship edited by D.J. Enright and David Rawlinson

Jonathan Bate

Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton

Gavin Ewart

Two Poems

Mark Ford

The Dylan Companion edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman
Bob Dylan: Performing Artist. Vol. I: 1960-73 by Paul Williams
Dylan: Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
The Bootleg Series: Vols I-III (rare and unreleased) 1961-1991 by Bob Dylan

Roger Parker

Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791 by Volkmar Braunbehrens
The Mozart Compendium edited by H.C. Robbins Landon
Mozart and Vienna by H.C. Robbins Landon
Mozart’s Thematic Catalogue: A Facsimile introduced and transcribed by Albi Rosenthal and Alan Tyson
The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart edited by Neal Zaslaw and William Cowdery

Asa Briggs

The World of the Oratorio by Kurt Pahlen
The Making of the Victorian Organ by Nicholas Thistlethwaite

Ruth Richardson

A Paradise out of a Common Field: The Pleasures and Plenty of the Victorian Garden by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards
Private Gardens of London by Arabella Lennox-Boyd
The Greatest Glasshouse: The Rainforest Recreated edited by Sue Minter
Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 by Albion Urdank

Stephen Sackur

Diary: In Khorramshahr

Danny Karlin

The Clopton Hercules by Duncan Sprott
Life of a Drum by Carlo Gebler
Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
A place I’ve never been by David Leavitt

Philip Purser

A German Requiem by Philip Kerr

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