Contents

From the Editors

Murder at the Majestic • patrick welland

J. G. Farrell, Troubles

Evasions and Deceits • peter parker

Diana Petre, The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley

All for Art • helena drysdale

Alison Lurie, Real People

Joyce to the Life • margaret drabble

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce

Birch, Bell and Book • jonathan smith

Brian Moore, The Feast of Lupercal

The Spell of Stout Angus • robert macfarlane

James Stout Angus, A Glossary of the Shetland Dialect

Learning from the Wilderness • galen o’hanlon

Ronald Welch, Mohawk Valley

Motorway Madness • sarah bakewell

Cortázar & Dunlop, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute

Wisdom from the Ivory Tower • matthew adams

F. M. Cornford, Microcosmographia Academica

Dresden and After • a. f. harrold

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5

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