Editorial: Political Histories; <EM>A.Heilmann</EM> & <EM>M.Llewellyn</EM><BR>Simone Téry (1897-1967): Writing the History of the Present in Inter-war France; <EM>A.Kershaw</EM><BR>'The Indian Wars Have Never Ended in the Americas': the Politics of Memory and History in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead; Rebecca Tillett<BR>Blood and Tears in the Mirror of Memory: Palestinian Trauma in Liana Badr's The Eye of the Mirror; <EM>M.-L. Kohlke</EM><BR>Interview with Nawal El Saadawi (Cairo, 29 January 2006); <EM>S.Smith</EM><BR>'You Like To Mix Things Up On Purpose …? Hoy, What Are You Trying To Prove?': Representations of Recent (Hi)stories in Jessica Hagedorn's The Gangster of Love; <EM>M.V.Echano</EM><BR>Exorcizing the Past: the Slave Narrative as Historical Fantasy; <EM>S.Wood</EM><BR>Remembering Home: Nation and Identity in the Recent Writing of Doris Lessing; <EM>S.Watkins</EM><BR>Interview with Sarah Waters; <EM>L.Armitt</EM><BR>