February 1988 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Fiction | Biography | Oppression | General Fiction Richard Ingrams A Dish of Sweetcorn Leaving Home By Garrison Keillor LR Biography David Profumo Life of O’Brien Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography By Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp LR Patrick Taylor-Martin Mickey Mouse of Tap Dance Astaire: The Biography By Tim Satchell LR Oppression Sam Phipps The Government Inspector Perestroika – New Thinking for Our Country and the World By Mikhail Gorbachev LR General Deborah Figgis Roget Gets it in the Neck The Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus By William T McLeod (ed) LR
David Profumo Life of O’Brien Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography By Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp LR
Sam Phipps The Government Inspector Perestroika – New Thinking for Our Country and the World By Mikhail Gorbachev LR
Deborah Figgis Roget Gets it in the Neck The Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus By William T McLeod (ed) LR
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