February 1980 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Reviews | General Reviews Jonathan Keates Revelations Shikasta By Doris Lessing LR Paul Bailey Contrived Excesses The Mangan Inheritance By Brian Moore Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) By Christina Stead LR Barbara Hardy Beryl Bainbridge – The Little Killings of Everyday Life Another Part of the Wood By Beryl Bainbridge LR A. D. Moody The Fifties Pint Poet Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry By Philip Hobsbaum LR General Bernard Crick Political Memoirs LR
Paul Bailey Contrived Excesses The Mangan Inheritance By Brian Moore Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) By Christina Stead LR
Barbara Hardy Beryl Bainbridge – The Little Killings of Everyday Life Another Part of the Wood By Beryl Bainbridge LR
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