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Francis Gilbert

Articles by Francis Gilbert

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Mugging de Queen's English

  • 15 January 2001

Commentary - Francis Gilbert applauds the culling of poetry's old guard from the school curriculum

Undercover hero

  • 13 November 2000

Maskerado: dancing around death in Nazi Hungary
Tivadar Soros Canongate, 208pp, £14.99
ISBN 1841950629

Commentary - Real presence

  • 24 July 2000

Francis Gilbert on the return of the ghost story in contemporary fiction

School report

  • 29 May 2000

The Learning Game: a teacher's inspirational story
Jonathan Smith Little, Brown, 252pp, £14.99
ISBN 0316854212

Bad Boys, Bad Men: confronting antisocial personality disorder
Donald W Black and C Lindon Larson OUP, 256pp, £9.50

Speak memory

  • 10 April 2000

Chasing Shadows: memories of a vanished world
Hugo Gryn, with Naomi Gryn Viking, 300pp, £16.99
ISBN 0670887935

"I will arise again"

  • 20 December 1999

Last month, after completing his biography of London, Peter Ackroyd suffered a huge heart attack. He still spends every night in hospital. In his first interview since that setback, he speaks to Francis Gilbert about Aids, death and the book that nearly killed him

Audio century

  • 29 November 1999

Francis Gilbert

Useful Idiots

  • 08 November 1999

Under the Red Flag: A History of Communism in Britain
Keith Laybourn & Dylan Murphy Sutton Publishing, 256pp, £25
ISBN 0750914858

Commentary - Why I love Bridget Jones

  • 26 July 1999

Helen Fielding has created a contemporary Molly Bloom

The New Statesman Profile - Tony Harrison

  • 02 April 1999

Poet laureate of the hard left, the Bennite bard still awaits the revolution

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