Contents
From the Editors Adrift on the Tides of War • PATRICK WELAND
Olivia Manning’s Balkan trilogy
Hands off the Handlebars • SUE GE
Roald Dahl, Boy
One of the Regulars • LINDA LEATHERBAROW
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Means of Escape
’Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost? • CHRISTOPHER RUSH
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
The Sound of Chariots • SUE GAISFORD
The Roman Britain novels of Rosemary Sutcliff
Porridge and the Shorter Catechism • MORAG MCINES
F. M. McNeill, The Scots Kitchen
Challenging the Old Gang • MICHAEL BARBER
Noel Annan, Our Age
Hauntings • MICHÈLE ROBERTS
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Hitting the Nail on the Head • YSENDA MAXTONE GRAHAM
The poetry of Jan Struther
The Twilight Hour • MIRANDA SEYMOUR
Peter Davidson, The Last of the Light
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