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I should like to draw the list’s attention to a book recently published by a Bristol colleague, Dr Sara Jones: Published by De Gruyter in Berlin, Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011) examines the interaction between intellectuals and Party functionaries from literary and historical perspectives. It focuses on three case-study authors positioned along a spectrum of conformity and dissent, Hermann Kant, Stefan Heym and Elfriede Brüning, foregrounding the ambiguities and contradictions of intellectual life in the GDR in ways that will affect the study of the East German society as a whole for a new generation of literary, social and cultural studies. Please pardon the Departmental trumpet-blowing, but we are genuinely proud of work of this calibre and are pleased to be able to recommend it to you. Robert Professor Robert Vilain, MA DPhil (Oxon) German Department School of Modern Languages 21 Woodland Road Bristol BS8 1TE (0)117 928 8794 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/german/