Here is a miscellany of books, written before the 1980 Party Conference by authors who have some concern about the future of the Labour Party. Healey's is a magnificent picture-book strung on a slender autobiographical thread, which he describes as being 'partly about photography, partly about the world and partly about me'. Although he has included some political anecdotes, the book makes no claim to be a serious discussion of his party's future, but it does reveal attractive aspects of the author's personality and interests probably not hitherto widely recognised.

LRB 18 December 1980 | PDF Download