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CONTENTS

Preface

Mahmud Abu Shilbayah, La salaam

Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete

Sidney Alexander, Marc Chagall

Svetlana Alliluyeva, Twenty Letters to a Friend

Kingsley Amis, The Folks That Live on the Hill

William Anderson, Translation of Dante, La Vita Nuova

Noel Annan, Our Age

W. H. Auden, Collected Shorter Poems, 1927–1957

Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time

Elliott Baker, The Penny Wars

Arturo and Ilsa Barea, The Forging of a Rebel

Sybille Bedford, A Legacy

Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift

Bernard Berenson, The Italian Painters of the Renaissance

Isaiah Berlin, Translation of Ivan Turgenev, First Love

Adrian Berry, The Next 500 Years

John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

Princess Marthe Bibesco, Le Perroquet Vert

Paul Bowles, Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal, 1987–9

Arno Breker, Bildnesse unserer Epoche

Christopher Burney, The Dungeon Democracy

Raymond Carr, English Fox Hunting

Judy Cassab, Diaries

Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921–1952

Alasdair Clayre, A Fire by the Sea

Lucien Combelle, Péché d’Orgueil

Cyril Connolly, Previous Convictions

Robert Conquest, The Great Terror

Anthony Daniels, alias Theodore Dalrymple, The Proper Procedure

Philippe Daudy, Les Anglais

Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin

Lawrence Durrell, Constance

Amos Elon, The Israelis: Founders and Sons

John Fuller, Collected Poems

Nicholas Gage, Eleni

Martha Gellhorn, The Honeyed Peace: A Collection of Stories

Martin Gilbert, The Second World War: A Complete History

Philip Glazebrook, Byzantine Honeymoon: A Tale of the Bosphorus

Herbert Gold, Biafra Goodbye

Oleg Gordievsky, Next Stop Execution

Michael Grant, Greeks and Romans

Robert Graves, Collected Poems

John Gross, Editor of The New Oxford Book of English Prose

Frederic V. Grunfeld, Berlin

Roman Halter, Roman’s Journey

Aldous Huxley, Island

Paul Ignotus, Political Prisoner

B. S. Johnson, Albert Angelo

David Jones, The Anathemata

Ernst Jünger, Journal, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Alfred Kazin, A Walker in the City

Elie Kedourie, The Chatham House Version

J. B. Kelly, Arabia, the Gulf and the West

Arthur Koestler, The God That Failed

Walter Laqueur, The Missing Years

Peter Levi, The Flutes of Autumn

Bernard Levin, Taking Sides

Bernard Lewis, Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

Rose Macaulay, Going Abroad

Kanan Makiya, Republic of Fear

Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune

W. Somerset Maugham, Don Fernando

Jessica Mitford, A Find Old Conflict

Nancy Mitford, The Water Beetle

Dom Moraes, Beldam Etcetera

Laurent Murawiec, La Guerre d’après

V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers

Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life

Edna O’Brien, A Pagan Place

Stanley Olson, Elinor Wylie

Iris Origo, War in Val d’Orcia

J. B. Priestley, Margin Released: A Writer’s Reminiscences and Reflections

Gwynedd Rae, Mary Plain in War-Time

Jean-François Revel, La Tentation Totalitaire

Gregor von Rezzori, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

Erich Segal, Love Story

Alan Sillitoe, Raw Material

Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Friend of Kafka

Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich

John Stewart, To the River Kwai

Mark Strand, Selected Poems

Amir Taheri, The Persian Night

Benjamin Tammuz, Requiem for Na’aman

A. J. P. Taylor, English History, 1914–1945

Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

George Weidenfeld, Remembering My Good Friends

Dame Rebecca West, The Meaning of Treason

Michael Wharton, The Stretchford Chronicles

Alexander Yakovlev, USSR: The Decisive Years

Afterword

Index