For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
1980s

January 1989 Issue

Bryony Edmunds

Tales for Young Peasants

Stories For My Children

By Leo Tolstoy

January 1989 Issue

Susannah Herbert

Get Rid of Unwanted Odours

Cat's Eye

By Margaret Atwood

September 1988 Issue

Peter Levi

Better Than Seamus Heaney

Mornings in the Baltic

By Adam Thorpe

August 2018 Issue

Christopher Howse

Soaking up the Atmosphere

Michael Burleigh

Apocalypse Nearly

1983: The World at the Brink

By Taylor Downing

February 2018 Issue

Keshava Guha

Year of Infamy

1984: India's Guilty Secret

By Pav Singh

October 1980 Issue

Chael Graham

Letter from Amerika: Inversion in the Promises Land

October 1980 Issue

Martin Walker

On the Vegemite Trail

December 2016 Issue

Justin Beplate

Endgame

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV, 1966-1989

By George Craig, Martha Dow Fehensenfield, Dan Gunn & Lois More Overbeck (edd)

August 1983 Issue

Roald Dahl

Not A Chivalrous Affair

God Cried

By Tony Clifton and Catherine Leroy

April 1980 Issue

James Kearns and Ken Newton

An Interview with Jacques Derrida

September 1987 Issue

George Stern

Still Aboard the Sinking Ship

If Voting Changed Anything, They'd Abolish it

By Ken Livingstone

February 1990 Issue

Max Hastings

Jolly Spiffing

The Big Shots

By Jonathan Garnier Ruffer

June 1991 Issue

Nick Hornby

Wanna Get Funky?

Shots from the Hip

By Charles Shaar Murray

April 1991 Issue

Gill Hornby

Long Ago Eighties

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

By Barbara Ehrenreich

January 1987 Issue

Melvyn Bragg

Acts of Faith

The Arts and the People

By Sir Roy Shaw

October 1986 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

Die Dismal Fog

Coasting

By Jonathan Raban

December 1984 Issue

Germaine Greer

Jet-Set Glitz

Nudes: 1981–1984

By David Bailey

November 1984 Issue

John Haffenden

Magical Mannerist

Interview with Angela Carter

July 1985 Issue

A N Wilson

Bogey Fogey

The Young Fogey Handbook

By Suzanne Lowry