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Oldie Review Of Books

 

 

Welcome to the autumn 2009 issue of ORB. We have two ‘Literary Lives’ obituaries in this month –  a short piece on the forgotten creator of Captain Pugwash, John Ryan, and a piece by Jane Thynne on Frank McCourt, creator of the ‘misery memoir’ with his book, Angela’s Ashes. These are in addition to the usual sections on history, biography and memoir, sport, travel, etc.
The next Oldie Review of Books is coming out with the December issue of The Oldie – so you won’t have to wait too long for your next instalment.

Richard Ingrams

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The Last Englishman Roland Chambers; A Fortunate Life Paddy Ashdown; Love Child Allegra Huston; Mad World Paula Byrne; Harold Macmillan Charles Williams; Confessions of a Mullah Warrior Masood Farivar; The Blue Hour Lilian Pizzichini; The Frock-Coated Communist Tristram Hunt; My Father’s Places Aeronwy Thomas; Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation Andrew Lambert; Muriel Spark Martin Stannard; Me Byron Rogers; Isaiah Berlin’s letters

Between the Assassinations Aravind Adiga; Turbulence Giles Foden; We are All Made of Glue Marina Lewycka; The Dead of Winter Rennie Airth; Nocturnes Kazuo Ishiguro; The Missing Tim Gautreaux; The Little Stranger Sarah Waters; Hearts and Minds Amanda Craig

HISTORY

Bloody Victory William Philpott; 1938: Hitler’s Gamble Giles Macdonogh; Lords of Finance Liaquat Ahamed; The English Rebel David Horspool; When the Lights Went Out Andy Beckett; The Storm of War Andrew Roberts; Stalin’s Nemesis Bertrand M Patenaude; Bluestockings Jane Robinson; D-Day Antony Beevor; The Last Crusaders Barnaby Rogerson; Revolution 1989 Victor Sebestyen

John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash

The Idle Parent Tom Hodgkinson; Frankly, My Dear Molly Haskell; The National Gallery Charles Saumarez Smith; On Roads Joe Moran; Mini Simon Garfield; MINI: An Intimate Biography Christy Campbell; The Game Cook Norman Tebbit

ILance Armstrong John Wilcockson; Football Nation Andrew Ward and John Williams; Ashes to Ashes Marcus Berkmann

Betjeman’s England Stephen Games; The Smell of the Continent Richard Mullen and James Munson; The Secret Life of France Lucy Wadham; Rivers Griff Rhys Jones; In the Valley of Mist Justine Hardy; The Dead Yard Ian Thomson; Footprints in Paris Gillian Tindall

Frank McCourt, 1930– 2009

The Junior Officers’ Reading Club Patrick Hennessey; What Price
Liberty? Ben Wilson; Pistols at Dawn John Campbell

The Shell Country Alphabet Geoffrey Grigson; The
Adventures of Margery Allingham Julia Jones; Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle; Eastern
Approaches Fitzroy Maclean; Most Secret War R V Jones

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