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LISA JARDINE, Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Queen Mary and W estfield College, University of London, is a regular contributor to Radio 4's Kaleidoscope and author of books on a wide range of subjects . Her latest acclaimed work, Worldly Goods (Macmillan), was reviewed in September LR.
JOHN BIFFEN's long membership of the House of Commons, spanning seven Prime Ministers, has included spells as Chief Secretary, Lord President, Leader of the House (for over five years) and Lord Privy Seal. A revised edition of his classic history of the House of Commons, Inside Westmirtster, is out this month in paperback from Andre Deutsch at £9.99.
HUMPHiliY CARPENTER's excellent biography of Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop arrived in Lexington Street too late for a review, having been embargoed by Hodder on the insistence of The Ti111es.· A D.ecember review would be hideously late, but it would be a shame if nobody came to hear of the book.
JOHN REDWOOD formerly of All Souls, resigned from the Cabinet last year to challenge Jolm Major for the leadership of the Conservative Party. He is now with the Conservative 2000 Foundation in Wilfi:ed Street.
DENIS JUDD's most recent book, Empire: The British Imperial Experience Jrotll 1765 to the Present was widely praised when it came from Harper Collins. His biography Prince Pltilip was reissued in a revised edition in 1991. He has also written biographies of George V and George VI.
JOHN DUGDALE is the Deputy Editor of the Media Section of the Guardian and the author of Sltepard on Sltepard.
FROM THE PULPIT
ANTHOLOGIES
SCIENCE
BIOGRAPHY
SHORT STORIES
POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
NOW
1 AUBERON WAUGH
4 LISA JARDINE Hungry for YoH: From Cannibalism to SedHction
Essays and Extracts Joan Smith
5 CANDIDA LYCETT GREEN Fathers: An Anthology (Ed) Louise
Guinness 6 JOHN KEMP The Idler's Companion: An Anthology of Lazy
Literature (Ed) Tom Hodgkinson and Matthew de Abaitua
8 ANTHONY CLARE The Island of the Colour-Blind Oliver Sacks 9 JOHN GRIBB!N Life's Grandeur StephenJay Gould 10 lAN R.EDMOND The Origins of Virtue Matt Ridley
11 TESSA BLACKSTONE Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ash ton
Julie Kavanagh 12 HUMPHREY CARPENTER ThroHgh the Dark Labyrinth: A
Biography of Lawrence Durrell Gordon Bowker 13 ANDREW BARROW Violet: The Life and Laves of Violet Cordon
Woodhouse Jessica Douglas-Ho me 14 JESSICA MANN The Kiss Hugo Vickers 16 PH fLIP 0AKES My Dark Places James Ellroy
17 ANGELA NEUSTATTER The Lady with the Laptop Clive Sinclair .18 DAVID PROFUMO Three Stories and a Reflection Patrick Siiskind 20 JOHN DuGDALE Crnising Paradise Sam Shepard 21 JANE GARDAM Listening to the Orchestra Susan Hill 22 AD REID Drown Junot Diaz 23 LINDSAY MACKIE Children of Albion Rovers (Ed) Kevin
Williamson New Scottish Writing: Soho Square VII (Ed) Harry Ritchie
24 JOHN BIFFEN Enoch Powell: A Life Robert Shepherd 26 CAROLINE MooREHEAD Troublemaker: One Man's Cmsade
Against China's Crnelty Harry Wu and George Vecsey
27 DAV!D PRYCE-JONES Memoirs Mikhail Gorbachev
28 JOHN REDWOOD Conservative Realism: New Essays in
Conservatism (Ed) Kenneth Minogue 29 MATT SEATON The Age of Anxiety (Ed) Sarah Dunant and Roy
Porter 31 SUSAN JEFFREYS The Sibling Society: The Culture of Half-Adults
Robert Bly 32 DENIS Juoo The Queen Ben Pimlott
Editor: AUBERON WAUGH Deputy Editor: NANCY SLADEK Assistant Editor: JOANNA CRAVEN
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Issue no. 221
LITERARY REVIEW November 1996
