Contents

From the Editors A Cheerful Revolutionary • AMANDA THEUNISEN

The memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Hanging Out on the Maginot Line • MICHAEL BARBER

Anthony Rhodes, Sword of Bone

Strindberg’s Island • KARIN ALTENBERG

August Strindberg, The People of Hemsö

The Rummidge Chronicles • HENRY JEFFREYS

David Lodge’s university novels

A Battersea Childhood • JEREMY LEWIS

Richard Church, Over the Bridge

Collapse in the Colony • PATRICK WELAND

J. G. Farrell, The Singapore Grip

Love and Miss Lotti • SUE GE

Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew and Her Friends

Hero Ahead of His Time • URSULA BUCHAN

John Buchan, Montrose and Witch Wood

Goodbye to All What? • VICTORIA NEUMARK

Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That

Mostly in the Mind • DEREK COLET

Nigel Balchin, Mine Own Executioner

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