July 1985 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: General | Television | Interview | Biography | Sport General A N Wilson Bogey Fogey The Young Fogey Handbook By Suzanne Lowry LR John Bayley The Florence Nightingale of Fiction Selections from George Eliot's Letters By Gordon S Haight LR Germaine Greer Dark Age of the Steroid The Pill: The Gap Between Promise and Performance By Dr Margaret White The Bitter Pill: How Safe is the Perfect Contraceptive? By Dr Ellen Grant LR A L Rowse Irresistibly Readable Renaissance Essays By Hugh Trevor-Roper LR Television Richard Curtis Sweet FA LR Interview David Sexton Interview: Raymond Carver LR Biography Christopher Hitchens Three Theories Breaking with Moscow By Arkady Shevchenko LR Terry Eagleton Janus-Faced Genius Mikhail Bakhtin By Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist LR Sport Imran Khan Umpire, Umpire! The Art of Captaincy By Mike Brearley
John Bayley The Florence Nightingale of Fiction Selections from George Eliot's Letters By Gordon S Haight LR
Germaine Greer Dark Age of the Steroid The Pill: The Gap Between Promise and Performance By Dr Margaret White The Bitter Pill: How Safe is the Perfect Contraceptive? By Dr Ellen Grant LR
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