with Derek Parker who looks at the pick of the week's new books including:
The World of the Crusaders. by Joshua Prawer , who teUs the story of the Crusades which poured into the East to defend and preserve the Latin kingdom.
Failure of a Revolution: Sebastian Haffner 's account of a spontaneous anti-militarist but abortive uprising in the Germany of 1918. A Jane Austen Companion: a comprehensive study of the novelist and her work by F. B. Pinion.
Frank Kermode 's Lawrence: an ' indispensable introduction to the complexities of D. H. Lawrence. '
Producer MIRIAM RAPP