October 1981 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Life & Books Life & Books Colin Wilson Priestley J B Priestley, The Last of the Sages By John Atkins LR Penelope Lively Influential Books John Mole The Literary Life Edward Thomas, A Language not to be Betrayed (Selected Prose) By Edna Longley (ed) LR Christopher Hawtree Night & Day LR
John Mole The Literary Life Edward Thomas, A Language not to be Betrayed (Selected Prose) By Edna Longley (ed) LR
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