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American Playgrounds (Review) Richard Mayne
Spaghetti Westerns, by Christopher Frayling
- Spaghetti Westerns by Christopher Frayling




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Books Encountered (18 Reviews) R.M.
David Mamet, by C.W.E. Bigsby
- David Mamet by C.W.E. Bigsby
- Television Today and Tomorrow by Christopher Dunkley
- The Inner I by Brian Finney
- Commonplace Book by E.M. Forster and Philip Gardner
- Novelists in Interview by John Haffenden
- The New Review Anthology by Ian Hamilton
- More Letters of Oscar Wilde by Rupert Hart-Davis and Oscar Wilde
- Gunter Grass by Ronald Hayman
- My Life in the Silver Screen by Gerald Kaufman
- Rebel by Kevin Ingram
- Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming
- The Hogarth Letters by Hermione Lee
- Through Brown Eyes by Prafulla Mohanti
- Clara Schumann by Nancy B. Reich
- Paths from a White Horse by Peter Vansittart
- Monuments and Maidens by Marina Warner
- Ted Hughes by Thomas West
- The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin

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Books Encountered (17 Reviews) R.M.
Theories of Criticism, by M.H. Abrams and James Ackerman
- Theories of Criticism by M.H. Abrams and James Ackerman
- The Crisis in Criticism by William E. Cain
- Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes by Stanley Cavell
- Eros and Psyche by Karen Chase
- The Thematics of Commitment by P.M. Cryle
- Literary Fortifications by Joan DeJean
- The Oxford Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
- Emerson's Romantic Style by Julie Ellison
- Plausible Prejudices by Joseph Epstein
- Seven Pillars of Popular Culture by Marshall W. Fishwick
- The Name of Action by John Fraser
- To Write Paradise by Christine Froula
- The Skeptic Disposition by Eugene Goodheart
- Criticism and Critical Theory by Jeremy Hawthorn
- Taking Chances by Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan
- Poetry Today by Anthony Thwaite
- Psychoanalytic Criticism by Elizabeth Wright

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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian, by Noel Annan
- Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian by Noel Annan
- James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769-1795 by Frank Brady
- The Kennedys by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
- Neville Chamberlain, Vol. I by David Dilks
- Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics by David Dutton
- Auden in Love by Dorothy J. Farnan
- Dorothy Wordsworth by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton
- Lloyd George: From Peace to War, 1912-1916 by John Grigg
- The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guinness and Catherine Guinness
- Iacocca by Lee Iacocca and William Novak
- Invented Lives by James R. Mellow
- Hugh Dalton by Ben Pimlott
- Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered by William H. Pritchard
- Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson
- Siegfried Sassoon Diaries, 1923-1925 by Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Hart-Davis

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Books Encountered (10 Reviews) R.M.
Travelling Through the Senses, by Martin Booth
- Travelling Through the Senses by Martin Booth
- The English Language by Robert W. Burchfield
- Joe Orton by Maurice Charney
- Creativity and Perversion by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
- Author! Author! by Richard Findlater
- An American Procession by Alfred Kazin
- Eric Linklater by Michael Parnell
- A Vanished Present by Ann Pasternak Slater and Alexander Pasternak
- Ireland and the English Crisis by Tom Paulin
- Essays from Oceania and Eurasia by Benoit J. Suykerbuyk

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Books Encountered (19 Reviews) R.M.
Here Lies Eric Ambler, by Eric Ambler
- Here Lies Eric Ambler by Eric Ambler
- The Fringes of Power by John Colville
- Rise and Fall by Milovan Djilas
- An Egyptian Journal by William Golding
- Herself Defined by Barbara Guest
- Brett: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico by Sean Hignett
- Monty at Close Quarters by T.E.B. Howarth
- The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett by Daniel Karlin
- A Path from Rome by Anthony J.P. Kenny
- August Strindberg by Olof Lagercrantz
- The Other Side of the Moon by Sheridan Morley
- Everything to Lose by Frances Partridge
- Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear by Omar Pound, A. Walton Litz, Ezra Pound, and Dorothy Shakespear, ...
- Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader by Jehuda Reinharz
- The Kitchener Enigma by Trevor Royle
- The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto
- Edward Thomas by Richard George Thomas
- The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
- Memoirs of King George II by Horace Walpole and John Brooke




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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Values and Social Change in Britain, by Mark Abrams, David Gerard, and Noel Timms
- Values and Social Change in Britain by Mark Abrams, David Gerard, and Noel Timms
- Now the War is Over by Paul Addison
- Finally Truffaut by Don Allen
- England, First and Last by Anthony Bailey
- The Pity of War by Jill Balcon
- Stevie by Jack Barbera and William McBrien
- The Normans and the Norman Conquest by R. Allen Brown
- Photoportraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson
- The English House by James Chambers
- The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 by Donald Gallup and Thornton Wilder
- The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose by Douglas Gray
- The True Story of H. P. Sauce by Dinsdale Landen and Jennifer Landen
- The Secret Offensive by Chapman Pincher
- Europe and the New Technologies by Margaret Sharp
- The Ultimate Enemy by Wesley K. Wark
- The Writing on the Wall by Phillip Whitehead


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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Crowns in Conflict, by Theo Aronson
- Crowns in Conflict by Theo Aronson
- The End of Art Theory by Victor Burgin
- The Letters of John Calmann 1951-1980 by John Calmann
- On the Record by Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor
- Helen Waddell: A Biography by Felicitas Corrigan
- The Existential and Its Exits by L.A.C. Dobrez
- The State of America by Trevor Fishlock
- In the Vatican by Peter Hebblethwaite
- Choosing Elites by Robert Klitgaard
- Liberty Style by Mervyn Levy
- Hannah Arendt by Derwent May
- Henry Moore by William Packer
- Pleasures of the Belle Epoque by Charles Rearick
- How the West Grew Rich by Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr.
- Private Opinions, Public Polls by Leslie Watkins and Robert M. Worcester
- A Stillness Heard Round the World by Stanley Weintraub


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Books Encountered (18 Reviews) R.M.
The Originals, by William Amos
- The Originals by William Amos
- The Falklands War by Alberto R. Coll and Anthony C. Arend
- Mitford's Japan by Hugh Cortazzi
- Maud: The Illustrated Diary of Victorian Women by Flora Fraser and Maud Berkeley
- Powers and Liberties by John A. Hall
- Explorers Extraordinary by John Keay
- The Promise of History by Athanasios Moulakis
- A Taste for Travel by John Julius Norwich
- The Noonday Sun by Valerie Pakenham
- Miss Fane in India by John Pemble
- Kipling's India by Thomas Pinney and Rudyard Kipling
- The Ladies of Castlebrae by A. Whigham Price
- Why the Crimean War? by Norman Rich
- Henry Brougham 1778-1868 by Robert Stewart
- Open Window - Open Door by Richard Stoker
- The Randlords by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- First with the News by Charles Wilson
- Mme de Stael by Renee Winegarten

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Books Encountered (18 Reviews) R.M.
Britain Can Take It, by Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards
- Britain Can Take It by Anthony Aldgate and Jeffrey Richards
- Richard Rogers by Bryan Appleyard
- Taking Sides by Tony Barley
- The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature by Bernard Bergonzi
- No Magic Bullet by Allan M. Brandt
- Duff Cooper: The Authorized Biography by John Charmley
- The Common Writer by Nigel Cross
- The New Select Committees by Gavin Drewry
- Teachers by Frank E. Huggett
- The Divided Province by Keith Jeffery
- Beloved Quixote by Katherine Middleton Murry
- The Second World War Diary of Hugh Dalton, 1940-45 by Ben Pimlott and Hugh Dalton
- Eighteenth Century Encounters by Pat Rogers
- The Matrix of Modernism by Sanford Schwartz
- The Innocent Eye by Roger Shattuck
- Journal of a Vietcong by Nhu Tang Truong, David Chanoff, and Doan Van Toai, ...
- Secrecy and Democracy by Stansfield Turner
- Max Beerbohm, or the Dandy Dante by Robert Viscusi

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Books Encountered (17 Reviews) R.M.
Voltaire, by A.J. Ayer
- Voltaire by A.J. Ayer
- Daughters and Lovers by Michele Aina Barale
- Realism in European Literature by Nicholas Boyle and Martin Swales
- William Golding: The Man and His Books by John Carey
- G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Michael Ffinch
- Blake's Innocence and Experience Retraced by Stanley Gardner
- Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic, 1895-1926 by Richard Perceval Graves
- Letters to Sherlock Holmes by Richard Lancelyn Green and Arthur Conan Doyle, ...
- Milton by Christopher Kendrick
- F. R. Leavis by F.R. Leavis and G. Singh
- Write on by David Lodge
- Barbara Pym by Robert Emmet Long
- Enid Bagnold by Anne Sebba
- H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal by David C. Smith
- Apocalyptic Marvell by Margarita Stocker
- George Eliot and Blackmail by Alexander Welsh
- Francis Bacon and Modernity by Charles Whitney

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
History, Truth, Liberty, by Raymond Aron and Franciszek Draus
- History, Truth, Liberty by Raymond Aron and Franciszek Draus
- Letters of Arnold Bennett by James Hepburn and Arnold Bennett
- From Three Worlds by William Clark
- The Shallow Grave by Walter Gregory, David Morris, and Anthony R. Peters, ...
- Watching the Dragon by Charles Hadfield and Jill Hadfield
- Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
- Intelligence Chief Extraordinary by Patrick Howarth
- The Revenge of the Philistines by Hilton Kramer
- The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 by Paul Preston
- German Film and Literature by Eric Rentschler
- The Red and the Blue by Andrew Sinclair
- Talking to Myself by Studs Terkel
- Britain's Civil Wars by Charles Townshend
- Truth and Lies in Literature by Stephen Vizinczey
- The Ethics of F.A. Hayek by Graham Walker
- Franklin of Philadelphia by Esmond Wright

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
A Word or Two Before You Go..., by Jacques Barzun
- A Word or Two Before You Go... by Jacques Barzun
- Destined to be Wives by Barbara Caine
- Head Above Water by Buchi Emecheta
- Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis by Peter Evans
- The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
- Nan by Sharon Gmelch
- Out of Egypt by Ihab Habib Hassan
- Faking it by Ian Haywood
- Freud and His Father by Marianne Krull
- The Special Relationship by William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull
- Cambodian Witness by Someth May and James Fenton
- Ends of the World by Cecily MacKworth
- The Violent Society by Eric Moonman
- Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood by Victor Perera
- Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew by Dan Vittorio Segre
- The Prodigy by Amy Wallace

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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, by Seamus Heaney and John Quinn
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl by Seamus Heaney and John Quinn
- Graham Greene by A.A. DeVitis
- Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality by Len Doyal and Roger Harris
- Setting the Mould by Robin Edmonds
- The Master Eccentric by Jonathan Goodman and Rayner Heppenstall
- The New Enlightenment by David Graham and Peter Clarke
- Who Owns London? by Shirley Green
- Local Government and Urban Politics by William Hampton
- The Market for Glory by Simon Jenkins
- The End of the Street by Linda Melvern
- The Royal Court Theatre, 1965-1972 by Philip Roberts
- Beatrix Potter by Judy Taylor
- Wrestling with a Pencil by Norman Thelwell
- Scenes from Institutional Life and Other Writings by John Vaizey
- Virginia Woolf and the Real World by Alex Zwerdling

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Books Encountered (17 Reviews) R.M.
Portraits of Poets, by Christopher Barker
- Portraits of Poets by Christopher Barker
- The Way of Actor by Brian Bates
- William James by Graham Bird
- Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945 by Martin Blumenson
- Europe: More Than a Continent by Michael Butler
- Philosophers and Pamphleteers by Maurice W. Cranston
- Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco
- After the Second Flood by Michael Hamburger
- Cutting the Lion's Tail by Mohamed H. Heikal
- John le Carre by Eric Homberger
- Ben Jonson by Rosalind Miles
- Thorold Dickinson by Jeffrey Richards
- Descent to Suez by Evelyn Shuckburgh and John Charmley
- The Ethnic Origins of Nations by Anthony D. Smith
- International English Usage by Loreto Todd and Ian Hancock
- Philip Larkin and English Poetry by Terrence Anthony Whalen
- The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. I: 1904-1912 by Andrew McNeillie and Virginia Woolf


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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, by Margaret Atwood and Robert...
- The New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English by Margaret Atwood and Robert Weaver
- Aneurin Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism by John Campbell
- Reflecting Men at Twice Their Natural Size by Sally Cline and Dale Spender
- The Pathology of Power by Norman Cousins
- Looking Out, Looking in by Susan Crosland
- The Greening of Africa by Paul Harrison
- A Lesser Life by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
- Amadeus: A Mozart Mosaic by Herbert Kupferberg
- The Frontiers of Paradise by Peter Levi
- The Jesuits by Malachi Martin
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- The Master Terrorist by Yossi Melman
- A Traveller's Guide to Roman Britain by Patrick Ottaway and Michael Cyprien
- The Vision of Anglo-America by Henry Butterfield Ryan
- Only One Earth by Lloyd Timberlake




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Books Encountered (14 Reviews) R.M.
Original Copy, by John Carey
- Original Copy by John Carey
- Westminster Abbey by David Carpenter and David Gentleman
- The Landscape of William Shakespeare by Michael Justin Davis
- The Manzoni Family by Natalia Ginzburg
- George Gershwin by Alan Kendall
- The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, Vol IV by Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, and Elizabeth Mansfield, ...
- Edgar Allan Poe by A. Robert Lee
- Playing for Time by Jeremy Lewis
- On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
- The City as a Work of Art by Donald J. Olsen
- The Painted Banquet by Jocelyn Rickards
- European Technological Collaboration by Margaret Sharp and Claire Shearman
- The Rules Are No Game by Anthony Wilden
- Worlds Apart by Gavin Young


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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Office Without Power, by Tony Benn
- Office Without Power by Tony Benn
- Peggy Ashcroft by Michael Billington
- The Quest for le Carre by Alan Bold
- Frank Richards by Mary Cadogan
- Macaulay by Owen Dudley Edwards
- The Silk Road by Irene M. Franck and David M. Brownstone
- Charlotte Bronte by Rebecca Fraser
- Back-Bencher by Ian Mikardo
- Over the Rim of the World by Caroline Moorehead and Freya Stark
- Hong Kong by Jan Morris
- The Faber Book of Letters by Felix Pryor
- Men Only by Barbara Rogers
- Sir Thomas Malory's Tales of King Arthur by Michael Senior and Thomas Malory
- The Chosen and the Choice by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
- Stevie Smith by Frances Spalding

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Books Encountered (14 Reviews) R.M.
Duke Ellington, by James Lincoln Collier
- Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier
- Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Parapsychology by Antony Flew
- Hess: The Missing Years, 1941-1945 by David Irving
- Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming by James Kotsilibas-Davis and Myrna Loy
- The Films of Carol Reed by Robert F. Moss
- Zoo Culture by Bob Mullan and Garry Marvin
- Fools for God by Richard North
- The Faith Healers by James Randi
- Mass Observation at the Movies by Jeffrey Richards and Dorothy Sheridan
- Turn-Of-The-Century Cabaret by Harold B. Segel
- Truth Betrayed by W.J. West
- The Collected Stories of Angus Wilson by Angus Wilson
- John Dryden and His World by James Anderson Winn
- Elysian Fields by Vassily S. Yanovsky

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
To Thine Own Self Be True, by Lewis M. Andrews
- To Thine Own Self Be True by Lewis M. Andrews
- Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Banerji
- Hope and Glory by John Boorman
- Letters to Thinkers by Edward de Bono
- Comrades by Bill Douglas
- Strategic and Operational Deception in the Second World War by Michael I. Handel
- The Heritage Industry by Robert Hewison
- Bodyshock by Liz Hodgkinson
- George Blake, Superspy by H. Montgomery Hyde
- Why Humans Vary in Intelligence by Seymour W. Itzkoff
- The Shape of English by Roger Lass
- A Social History of Madness by Roy Porter
- Going to Miami by David Rieff
- Katherine Mansfield by Claire Tomalin
- Memory by Mary Warnock
- Miscarriages of Justice by Bob Woffinden

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Eton Voices, by Danny Danziger
- Eton Voices by Danny Danziger
- Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend by Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
- Myself With Others by Carlos Fuentes
- The Blindfold Horse by Shusha Guppy
- Adult Pleasures by Dan Jacobson
- God and Two Poets by Anthony J.P. Kenny
- I, of All People by James Kirkup
- The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
- Bonnie Prince Charlie by Susan Maclean Kybett
- The Battle of Britain 1945 by Tony Le Tissier
- Europe: A Tapestry of Nations by Flora Lewis
- God Land by Conor Cruise O'Brien
- Trading Places by John Palmer
- Quiller Couch by A.L. Rowse
- Mallarme, or the Poet of Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Schools for Barbarians by Isabelle Stal

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
The Emancipated Society, by Rodney Atkinson
- The Emancipated Society by Rodney Atkinson
- Civilizing Caliban by Frances Borzello
- The Shifting Point, 1946-1987 by Peter Brook
- The British General Election of 1987 by David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh
- The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis
- Graham Greene: On the Frontier by Maria Couto
- An Ocean Apart by David Dimbleby and David Reynolds
- Green Pages by John Elkington, Tom Burke, and Julia Hailes
- The Geopolitics of Super Power by Colin S. Gray
- Mr. Collins Considered by Ivor Morris
- Selected Prose by Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown
- The Countryside in Question by Howard Newby
- Country Matters by Ian Niall
- Galileo: Heretic by Pietro Redondi
- He and She by Yvette Walczak
- Peter Brook: A Theatrical Casebook by David Williams



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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Full Circle, by Digby Anderson
- Full Circle by Digby Anderson
- Inside the Think Tank by Tessa Blackstone and William Plowden
- MacDiarmid: Christopher Murray Grieve by Alan Bold
- Something to Hold Onto by Richard Cobb
- The Fitzrovians by Hugh David
- The Green Consumer Guide by John Elkington and Julia Hailes
- The Essential Gesture by Nadine Gordimer and Stephen Clingman
- In Search of J. D. Salinger by Ian Hamilton
- Worlds Apart by David Holbrook
- The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980 by Ian S. MacNiven
- Beauty in History by Arthur Marwick
- John Updike by Julie Newman
- Journey Continued by Alan Paton
- Ghosts in the Mirror by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Walking Along the Border by Colm Toibin
- Happiness by Theodore Zeldin

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
After the Avant-Garde, by Robert Boyers
- After the Avant-Garde by Robert Boyers
- The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti
- Orwellian Language and the Media by Paul Chilton
- Requiem for the Resistance by Herman Friedhoff
- Young Betjeman by Bevis Hillier
- Doris Lessing by Carey Kaplan and Ellen Cronan Rose
- People and Places by P.J. Kavanagh
- Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan
- Anti-Racism: A Mania Exposed by Russell Lewis
- Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide by Kenneth McLeish
- Happiest Days by Jeffrey Richards
- Coastwise Lights by Alan Ross
- T.S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism by Richard Shusterman
- The School of Genius by Anthony Storr
- The Berlin Blockade by Ann Tusa and John Tusa
- The Friends by Nigel West


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Books Encountered (14 Reviews) R.M.
The Failure of the State, by Rodney Atkinson
- The Failure of the State by Rodney Atkinson
- Not by Fact Alone by John Clive
- Paris on the Eve: 1900-1914 by Vincent Cronin
- The Making of The Independent by Michael Crozier
- The Tightrope Walker by Hermine Demoriane
- Yours Etc.: Letters to the Press by Graham Greene and Christopher Hawtree
- Keith Joseph by Morrison Halcrow
- Writers Revealed by Rosemary Hartill
- The Prince of Wales by Maxwell Hutchinson
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Nature of History by Arthur Marwick
- Portraits of the Past by Richard Muir
- Literature of Europe and America in the 1960s by Spencer Pearce and Don Piper
- Making an Impact by Harvey Thomas and Liz Gill

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
The Music Lover's Literary Companion, by Dannie Abse and Joan Abse
- The Music Lover's Literary Companion by Dannie Abse and Joan Abse
- Power, Modernity, and Sociology by Raymond Aron
- Edward Lear in the Levant by Susan Hyman and Edward Lear
- Dickens: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
- We Dream of Honour by Richard J. Kelly and John Berryman
- The Essential Osbert Lancaster by Osbert Lancaster and Edward Lucie-Smith
- A Culture for Democracy by D.L. LeMahieu
- The Open Garden by Christopher Milne
- Understanding Modern Architecture by Patrick Nuttgens
- The Arts in a State by John Pick
- Oscar Wilde by Peter Raby
- The Natives Are Restless by Idries Shah
- Living in an Alibi Society by Nicholas A.H. Stacey
- Combating the Terrorists by H.H. Tucker
- Bobby Tulloch's Shetland by Bobby Tulloch
- Identifying Ivan by Willem A. Wagenaar

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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Milligan, by Dominic Behan
- Milligan by Dominic Behan
- The Word Book by Gyles Brandreth
- Byron in Europe by Simon Cheetham
- Elia Kazan by Michel Ciment
- The American City by Graham Clarke
- Southwards to Geneva by Mavis Coulson
- The Modern Social Conflict by Ralf Dahrendorf
- Dreamers of the Absolute by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Just Another Star? by Christopher Grayling and Christopher Langdon
- Integration or Disintegration? by Ray Honeyford
- The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 by Michael McKeon
- Nor Any Drop to Drink by Marcus Mainwaring
- I Shall Live by Henry Orenstein
- Conservative Thinkers by Roger Scruton
- Klara by Hugh Thomas

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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Ententes Cordiales, by David Arkell
- Ententes Cordiales by David Arkell
- Sea-Brothers by Bert Bender
- The Science of Science by Bernard Dixon
- Carrington by Gretchen Gerzina
- Talking Blues by Roger Graef
- The Challenge of Europe by Michael Heseltine
- Biotechnology by John Hodgson
- Passionate Opinions by John Clellon Holmes
- Tales of a Man Called Father Knox by Ronnie Knox-Mawer
- The Inner Limits of Mankind by Ervin Laszlo
- The Modern American Novella by A. Robert Lee
- Parson's Mill by Timothy Lewontin
- Infotechnology by Jack Meadows
- Armour Against Fate by Michael Occleshaw
- Voices of the Revolution by Peter Vansittart

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Books Encountered (15 Reviews) R.M.
Special Relationships, by Henry Brandon
- Special Relationships by Henry Brandon
- The Lives of Enoch Powell by Patrick Cosgrave
- Mary McCarthy: A Life by Carol W. Gelderman
- Many Masks by Brendan Gill
- Writing the Female Voice by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
- Scribblers for Bread by George Greenfield
- Grace and Favour by Jane Lapotaire
- Felix Mendelssohn by Rudolf Elvers and Felix Mendelssohn
- Wisdom, Information, and Wonder by Mary Midgley
- James Mason by Sheridan Morley
- Blood on the Nash Ambassador by Eric Mottram
- The East End by Alan Palmer
- Imperialism and Juvenile Literature by Jeffrey Richards
- Give Them All My Love by Gillian Tindall
- Self-Consciousness by John Updike

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Books Encountered (14 Reviews) R.M.
Protectionism, by Jagdish Bhagwati
- Protectionism by Jagdish Bhagwati
- Web of Words by David Bodanis
- A Restatement of Economic Liberalism by Samuel Brittan
- Who Needs Theatre by Robert Brustein
- Milena by Margarete Buber-Neumann
- Who Said What When by John Daintith
- Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg and Paul Stevenson, ...
- Politics, Innocence, and the Limits of Goodness by Peter Johnson
- The Crisis of Our Time by David Burnett King
- Authenticity in Music by Raymond Leppard
- Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free by V.S. Pritchett
- Off the Rails by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
- The Shah's Last Ride by William Shawcross
- The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III: 1919-1924 by Andrew McNeillie and Virginia Woolf

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Centuries of Female Days, by Harriet Blodgett
- Centuries of Female Days by Harriet Blodgett
- A History of Parliament by Ronald Butt
- Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
- Retreat Into the Mind by Ekbert Faas
- Fire Down Below by William Golding
- European Diary, 1977-1981 by Roy Jenkins
- Writing and the Holocaust by Berel Lang
- Flaubert: A Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
- Stephen Leacock by Gerald Lynch
- Parliament at Work by Oonagh McDonald
- Aspects of Verdi by George Whitney Martin
- Forbidden Land by Tom Stephenson
- Arthur Symons by Karl Beckson, John M. Munro, and Arthur Symons
- Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau and Joseph J. Moldenhauer, ...
- Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy, 1446-1503 by Christine Weightman
- American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 by James L.W. West III


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Books Encountered (14 Reviews) R.M.
The Pleasures of Peace, by Bryan Appleyard
- The Pleasures of Peace by Bryan Appleyard
- Man/Woman: The One is the Other by Elisabeth Badinter
- Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics by Martin Barker
- Osbert: A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster by Richard Boston
- Lewis Namier by Linda Colley
- When I Was by Desmond Hawkins
- Lydia and Maynard by Polly Hill, Richard D. Keynes, and Lydia Lopokova, ...
- Architect of European Unity by Robert Marjolin
- Hume by Nicholas Phillipson
- Planned to Death by J. Douglas Porteous
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by Patrick Reilly
- Spy Shadow by Tim Sebastian
- Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siecle France by Richard D. Sonn
- Congenial Spirits by Joanne Trautmann Banks and Virginia Woolf

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Dream of Commonwealth, 1921-42, by Max Beloff
- Dream of Commonwealth, 1921-42 by Max Beloff
- The Writer's Mind by Irv Broughton
- Exploding English by Bernard Bergonzi
- Unruly Times by A.S. Byatt
- Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor by D.J. Enright
- Lords of Poverty by Graham Hancock
- Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal
- Night Times and Light Times by David Hay Jones
- Red Victory by W. Bruce Lincoln
- Roads to Xanadu by John Merson
- Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles
- Life After Life by Tony Parker
- Opera in Crisis by Henry Pleasants
- Alan Moorehead by Tom Pocock
- In the Nineties by John Stokes
- Acting Solo by Jordan R. Young

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Terrorism: The PLO Connection, by Yonah Alexander and Joshua Sinai
- Terrorism: The PLO Connection by Yonah Alexander and Joshua Sinai
- The Writing Systems of the World by Florian Coulmas
- Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes
- Divided Britain by Ray Hudson and Allan W. Williams
- Mixed Blessings by Heinz R. Kuehn
- Perspectives and Identities by Peter Lloyd
- Thomas Arnold, Headmaster by Michael McCrum
- Red Brigades by Robert C. Meade, Jr
- The Germans by David Marsh
- Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium by Judith Martin
- Taming the Flood by Jeremy Purseglove
- Kristallnacht by Anthony Read
- Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson
- Philip Larkin by Janice Rossen
- The Other Europe by Jacques Rupnik
- Lawrence of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson


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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
Reported Sightings, by John Ashbery and David Bergman
- Reported Sightings by John Ashbery and David Bergman
- An Artificial Wilderness by Sven Birkerts
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- The William Companion by Mary Cadogan
- William Gerhardie by Dido Davies
- Revision and Authority in Wordsworth by William H. Galperin
- William Wordsworth by Stephen Gill
- The Quaker Tapestry by Ormerod Greenwood
- In Our Image by Stanley Karnow
- The Presence of Myth by Leszek Kolakowski
- Victorian Values by Gordon Marsden
- Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield and Vincent O'Sullivan
- Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven by Uta Ranke-Heinemann
- The Jesuit Factor by Peter Rawlinson
- Letters to Merline, 1919-1922 by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Postcards from the End of the World by Larry Wolff


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Books Encountered (17 Reviews) R.M.
Mad or Bad?, by Michael Bavidge
- Mad or Bad? by Michael Bavidge
- A Matter of Passion by Dario Biocca, Bernard Berenson, and Clotilde Marghieri, ...
- Minds, Brains and Machines by Geoffrey Brown
- The New American Writing by Graham Clarke
- Art or Bunk? by Ian Ground
- Letters to an Editor by Mark Fisher
- The Return of Cultural Treasures by Jeanette Greenfield
- Nationalism and International Society by James Mayall
- The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz
- Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France by Debora L. Silverman
- Letters of Leonard Woolf by Frederic Spotts and Leonard Woolf
- The Hidden Damage by James Stern
- Masks of Conquest by Gauri Viswanathan
- War and the Image of Germany by Stuart Wallace
- The Certainty of Literature by George Watson
- Absent Friends by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- The Van Gogh File by Ken Wilkie

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Books Encountered (16 Reviews) R.M.
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, by Derek Attridge
- The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge
- Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard
- Dictionary of Riddles by Mark Bryant
- Cervantes by Jean Canavaggio
- Tom Stoppard by Paul DeLaney
- The Faber Companion to Twentieth-Century Popular Music by Phil Hardy and Dave Laing
- Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice by Alan Heuser and Louis MacNeice
- Plotting Peace by Ronald Higgins
- Heroes and Villains by Richard W. Johnson
- Auden's Apologies for Poetry by Lucy McDiarmid
- Our Theatres in the Eighties by Sheridan Morley
- Wings of a Man's Life by S. Gorley Putt
- The Flutes of Dionysus by Robert D. Stock
- Edwin Drood by John Thacker
- Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
- A Brief History of Blasphemy by Richard Webster#2

Notes & Topics
The Case of Old BordeauxRichard Mayne

A Symposium
The Climate of FearM.J.L. and R.M.

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The Club Armchair (4 Reviews) Richard Mayne
Death Under Sail, by C.P. Snow
- Death Under Sail by C.P. Snow
- Strangers and Brothers by C.P. Snow
- Time of Hope by C.P. Snow
- The Conscience of the Rich by C.P. Snow

The Community of Europe (1962)Richard Mayne
3 Reviews, 1 Readable

Notes & Topics
Cross ChannelRichard Mayne

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Cunning Passages (12 Reviews) Richard Mayne
The Past is a Foreign Country, by David Lowenthal
- The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal
- Giovanni and Lusanna by Gene Brucker
- Immodest Acts by Judith C. Brown
- Carnival and Theater by Michael D. Bristol
- The Reign of Henry VIII by David Starkey
- London 1500-1700 by A.L. Beier and Roger Finlay
- Masterless Men by A.L. Beier
- Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 by J.P. Sommerville
- The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 by Maxine Berg
- The Last Rising by David J.V. Jones
- Independent Women by Martha Vicinus
- Protest and Reform by Joseph A. Kestner

Press
Demi-MondeRichard Mayne


Books
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Fiery Particle (Review) Richard Mayne
The Mandelbaum Gate, by Muriel Spark
- The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark


French AffairsRichard Mayne
Better in France?


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From Caligari to Kitsch (2 Reviews) Richard Mayne
The German Cinema, by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
- The German Cinema by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel
- Germany by Felix Bucher

Books
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George Orwell and His Critics (Review) Richard Mayne
The Crystal Spirit, by George Woodcock
- The Crystal Spirit by George Woodcock

Books
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A Giant Slowly Dying (Review) Richard Mayne
Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran, by Charles M.W. Moran and Winston Chur...
- Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran by Charles M.W. Moran and Winston Churchill

Gray EminenceRichard Mayne


Authors & Critics
To Hell With Europe!Richard Mayne





Books
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Peace or Nationalism for Europe? (Review) Richard Mayne
The European Idea, by Hubert M. Gladwyn
- The European Idea by Hubert M. Gladwyn

Postwar (1983)Richard J. Mayne
The Dawn of Today's Europe
1 Review

Chronicle
Prague's Cruel SpringRichard Mayne
Masaryk, 1948


The Recovery of Europe (1970)Richard J. Mayne
From Devastation to Unity
2 Reviews


Film
ScrutinisingRichard Mayne

The Student RevoltRichard Mayne
Why French Students Rebel

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Superpower Emeritus (11 Reviews) Richard Mayne
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
- The Last Forest by Oliver Rackham
- The English Peasant by Richard Heath
- The Sahibs and the Lotus by Michael Edwardes
- Britannia's Daughters by Joanna Trollope
- The Weary Titan by Aaron L. Friedberg
- The Enchanted Glass by Tom Nairn
- Two Georges by David Sinclair
- A History of Our Own Times by Ford Madox Ford, Solon Beinfeld, and Sondra J. Stang, ...
- The Caged Lion by William Manchester
- Selwyn Lloyd by D.R. Thorpe

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Telling Tales (10 Reviews) Richard Mayne
Thomas Becket, by Frank Barlow
- Thomas Becket by Frank Barlow
- Boswell: The English Experiment, 1785-1789 by Irma Lustig and Frederick Pottle
- Victoria: An Intimate Biography by Stanley Weintraub
- The Stars and the Stillness by Kathy Triggs
- Carpet Sahib by Martin Booth
- John Stewart Collis by Richard Ingrams
- Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess
- Ike by Piers Brendon
- Murrow: His Life and Times by A.M. Sperber
- King Remembered by Flip Schulke and Penelope O. McPhee

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Travel with Sintourist (Review) Richard Mayne
Tunc, by Lawrence Durrell
- Tunc by Lawrence Durrell

Discussion
"What Ails Us & Why"Richard Mayne
The Music of Despair

Men & Ideas
Wyndham LewisRichard Mayne
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