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CONTENTS PENELOPE STOKES published a book called Picture Framing Made Easy with Cassell last month. It does not introduce a new l i terary technique , but aims to teach people how to frame pictures. This month she self-publishes Craven Country, a 40,000-word history of her village, covering 1,000 years. It is available for £10 plus £2 p&p from The Holding, Hamstead Marshal!, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 OHW. J W M THOMPSON spends his retirement from editing the Sunday Telegraph tending his large garden in Norfolk and buying second-hand books in the neighbourhood. He no longer has a dog, having lost his dearly loved English springer spaniel, Sam, ten years ago. DAMIAN THOMPSON has written a book about the resurgence of apocalyptic belief in the shadow of the Millennium. Called The End of Time , i t is due from Sinclair-Stevenson in August. ELISA SEGRAVE's new novel Ten Men, is being published by Faber & Faber in February 1997. She is divorced, but has taken no vows of poverty or chastity. She and her two children own a dog - a black and white cavalier King Charles spaniel called Toby - a Russian horse and a fish, which has no name. SILVIA RODGERS publishes her own account of escaping from the Holocaust as a young girl in her memoirs, Red Saint, Pink Daughter (Andre Deutsch) , reviewed by Jessica Mann 1n last February's LR. CAROL£ ANGlER is working on a biography ofPrimo Levi. LITERARY REVIEW June 1996 FROM THE PULPIT BElLES LETTRES 1 AUBERON W AUGH 4 HENRY PORTER Resident Alien: New York Diaries Quentin Crisp 5 DAVTD CHIPP The Picador Book of Sportswriting (Ed) Nick Coleman and Nick Homby 6 ALICE OSWALD Collected Poems Robert Nye BIOGRAPHY EXPLORERS WISDOM PROFILE 7 ALEX WoODCOCK-CLARKE Lola Montez: A Life Bruce Seymour 8 DEREK DAVIES Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in japan Julia Boyd 11 WENDY ROWLAND A Life of Matthew Arnold Nicholas Murray 13 JW M THOMPSON I May Be Some Time Francis Spufford 14 JAMES TRAVERS Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers Peter Raby 16 DAMIAN THOMPSON Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus Anthony Storr 17 COLIN WILSON Alter-Egos: Multiple Personalities David Cohen 18 DAVID FLEMING Why Things Bite Back Edward Tenner 20 ALAN TAYLOR on Alastair Reid BRITISH FICTION 21 HILARY MANTEL 71te Cast Iron Shore Linda Grant 22 GILL HORNBY Altered States Anita Brookner 23 JANE CHARTERJS Kitchen Venom Philip Hensher 24 SusAN ELKIN Shadow Baby Margaret Forster 26 DOMINIC BRADBURY The Football Factory John King 27 GARETH H OWELL-j ONES Strandloper Alan Gamer 28 DAVID UTTERSON Ecstasy lrvine Welsh 29 RICHARD TYRRELL Suspicion Robert McCrum 29 BENEDICT KING New Boy William Sutcliffe 30 CLIFF KIMBER Adventures in Capitalism Toby Litt 30 ALEX SILCOX Some Kind of Black Diran Adebayo MEMOffiS 31 CAROL£ ANGlER All Rivers Run to the Sea, Memoirs: Volume One 1928-1969 Elie Wiesel 33 SIMON DENIS Tamara: Memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium Tamara Talbot Rice 34 SILVIA RODGERS The War After Anne Karpf Editor: AUBERON W AUG H Deputy Editor: NANCY SLADEK Editorial Consultant: LOLA BUBBOSH Business Manager: lSABEL BOOTHBY Assistant Editor: JOANNA CRAVEN Advertising Manager: CLIFF KIMBER Publisher: NAJM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANN£ SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton Issue no. 216
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J UN E 1996 FOREIGN FICTION HISTORY ACROSS THE HERRING POND LETTERS RESURRECTION SILENCED VOICES CRIME POETRY COMPETITION AND RESULTS 36 SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE D eath in the Andes M ario Vargas Llosa 36 ELISA SEGRAVE The Last of the Savages J ay Mclnemey 38 S!MON PETERS The Marx Family Saga Juan Goytisolo 38 lAN CRITCHLEY Mister Sandman Barbara Gowdy 39 EDWARD PEARCE Death Comesfor Peter PanJoan Brady 40 TATIANA HARRlSON Hunting Down Home J ean McNeil 42 MATTHEW HARVEY 38 Bahadarabad Zeeba Sadiq 43 STEPHANIE MERRITT Love Junkie Robert Plunket 44 JESS ICA MANN A History of the Family (Ed) Andre Burguiere, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Martine Segalen and Francoise Zonabend 45 ROGER CALDWELL A History of R eading Alberto Manguel 47 CHARLES THOMAS Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Neolithic Cosmos John North 48 RICHARD LAMB The Tanks at .Flers Trevor Pidgeon 49 PHILIP EADE The Kings and Queens: An I"everent Cartoon History of the British Monarchy Kenneth Baker 50 PETERJONES The Twelve Caesars, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The History of R ome, The R oman Emperors Michael Grant 52 FRANK M CLYNN The Movie Book of the Western (Ed) lan Cameron and Douglas Pye 53 PENELOPE STOKES Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets and C lass at the Turn of the Century Richard Ohmann 54 KIM THOMAS Life on Mars Alexander Stuart 55 56 The Book ofEbenezer Le Page Jonathan Weeks 57 SIOBHAN DOWD 58 PHILIP 0AKES 59 HILARY MANTEL 's An Experiment in Love has just been published in paperback by Penguin. DOMINI C BRADBURY , a comparatively new figure on the London scene, has left his fami l y's two beloved black Iabrador bitches, Charlotte and Emi l y, behind in Norwi ch w hile he, still unmarried, faces life alone in North London. He earns h is l iving as features editor of Co untry H omes and Int eriors, and coll ec ts Penguin first editions. He has written a screenplay, at present with his age nt, and has ideas for a novel. RI CHARD LAMB continues to work on his life of Mussolini for John Murray. His War in Italy is the subject of l ively interest in Italy , where i t h as just been published , and in America , where i t has just come o u t in paperba c k. The Macmillan Years, his controversial study published by John Murray last July , continues to be available in hardback, but potential buyers are advised to hurry, while stocks last . PETER )ONES, of N ewcastle University, is founder of the Friends of Classics, a charity to raise funds for th e encouragem e nt of classica l studies in sc hools, and Editor of i ts brilliant newsletter, Ad Fami li ares. They now raise £20,000 a year for this worthy cause, contributing signally to the salvation of Britain. jANE CHARTERIS's be stselling book The Good Food Shop Guide is published by Evening Standard Books, £9.99. The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthlyfrom: 44 Lexington Street, London W1R 3LH T el: 0171 437 9392 Fax: 0171 73 4 1844 ISSN 0144 4360 ©A ll subscription enquiries to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST 39, 45-46 Poland Street, London W1V 4AU Tel: 0171 734 3555 Fax: 0171 287 4767. UK Subscription Rate £22, Europe £28, rest of the world air mail only£44 USA Airspeed subscription price is £32 ($ 54) for 12 issues. Second class postage paid at So11th Hackensack N]. Postmaster: send address changes to Literary R eview, Royal Mail International, c/o Ye/lowstone, 2375 Pratt Blvd., E lk Grove Village IL 60007. A ll advertising enquiries to: Literary R eview Advertising, 44 Lexington Street, London W1R 3LH T el: 0171 437 9392 Fax: 0171 734 1844 Printed by Simpson Drewett & Co Ltd, 70 Sheen Road, Richmond, Su"ey TW9 1UF Tel: 0181 940 7441 Fax: 0181 948 8749 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by UMD Ltd, 1 Benwell Road, London N7 7AX Tel: 0171 700 4600 Fax: 0171 607 3352 Distn"buted to bookshops by Centra l Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 Tel: 0181 986 4854 LITERARY REVIEW June 1996

CONTENTS

PENELOPE STOKES published a book called Picture Framing Made Easy with Cassell last month. It does not introduce a new l i terary technique , but aims to teach people how to frame pictures. This month she self-publishes Craven Country, a 40,000-word history of her village, covering 1,000 years. It is available for £10 plus £2 p&p from The Holding, Hamstead Marshal!, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 OHW.

J W M THOMPSON spends his retirement from editing the Sunday Telegraph tending his large garden in Norfolk and buying second-hand books in the neighbourhood. He no longer has a dog, having lost his dearly loved English springer spaniel, Sam, ten years ago. DAMIAN THOMPSON has written a book about the resurgence of apocalyptic belief in the shadow of the Millennium. Called The End of Time , i t is due from Sinclair-Stevenson in August.

ELISA SEGRAVE's new novel Ten Men, is being published by Faber & Faber in February 1997. She is divorced, but has taken no vows of poverty or chastity. She and her two children own a dog - a black and white cavalier King Charles spaniel called Toby - a Russian horse and a fish, which has no name.

SILVIA RODGERS publishes her own account of escaping from the Holocaust as a young girl in her memoirs, Red Saint, Pink Daughter (Andre Deutsch) , reviewed by Jessica Mann 1n last February's LR.

CAROL£ ANGlER is working on a biography ofPrimo Levi.

LITERARY REVIEW June 1996

FROM THE PULPIT

BElLES LETTRES

1 AUBERON W AUGH

4 HENRY PORTER Resident Alien: New York Diaries Quentin Crisp 5 DAVTD CHIPP The Picador Book of Sportswriting (Ed) Nick

Coleman and Nick Homby 6 ALICE OSWALD Collected Poems Robert Nye

BIOGRAPHY

EXPLORERS

WISDOM

PROFILE

7 ALEX WoODCOCK-CLARKE Lola Montez: A Life Bruce

Seymour 8 DEREK DAVIES Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in japan Julia Boyd 11 WENDY ROWLAND A Life of Matthew Arnold Nicholas Murray

13 JW M THOMPSON I May Be Some Time Francis Spufford 14 JAMES TRAVERS Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

Peter Raby

16 DAMIAN THOMPSON Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus Anthony Storr 17 COLIN WILSON Alter-Egos: Multiple Personalities David Cohen 18 DAVID FLEMING Why Things Bite Back Edward Tenner

20 ALAN TAYLOR on Alastair Reid

BRITISH FICTION

21 HILARY MANTEL 71te Cast Iron Shore Linda Grant 22 GILL HORNBY Altered States Anita Brookner

23 JANE CHARTERJS Kitchen Venom Philip Hensher 24 SusAN ELKIN Shadow Baby Margaret Forster 26 DOMINIC BRADBURY The Football Factory John King 27 GARETH H OWELL-j ONES Strandloper Alan Gamer 28 DAVID UTTERSON Ecstasy lrvine Welsh 29 RICHARD TYRRELL Suspicion Robert McCrum 29 BENEDICT KING New Boy William Sutcliffe 30 CLIFF KIMBER Adventures in Capitalism Toby Litt 30 ALEX SILCOX Some Kind of Black Diran Adebayo

MEMOffiS

31 CAROL£ ANGlER All Rivers Run to the Sea, Memoirs:

Volume One 1928-1969 Elie Wiesel 33 SIMON DENIS Tamara: Memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and

Byzantium Tamara Talbot Rice 34 SILVIA RODGERS The War After Anne Karpf

Editor: AUBERON W AUG H Deputy Editor: NANCY SLADEK Editorial Consultant: LOLA BUBBOSH Business Manager: lSABEL BOOTHBY Assistant Editor: JOANNA CRAVEN Advertising Manager: CLIFF KIMBER

Publisher: NAJM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANN£ SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton

Issue no. 216

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