August 1988 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: From the Pulpit | Bachelors | O'Grady Says | Fiction | Short Stories | Oppression | Belles Lettres From the Pulpit Auberon Waugh In Eliot’s Footsteps Bachelors Toby Buchan Beating is Not The Same Thing as Buggery A Touch of Genius: The Life of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown & Julia Cave The Selected Letters of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown (ed) Brian Masters Sweetly Vicious Old Lady Capote By Gerald Clark LR O'Grady Says Jane O'Grady Hamblecha of Notting Hill meets the mother of the Carnival LR Fiction William Hamilton-Dalrymple Lady Balquidder Wept Echo By Violet Trefusis LR Short Stories Kathy Watson Nasty Stars Stars of the New Curfew By Ben Okri Oppression George Stern Espionage is So Much More Amusing in French The Evil Empire: The Third World War Now By Count de Marenches & Christine Ockrent The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations By Nigel West Belles Lettres Peter Jones Life in them Old Bones? The Poets on the Classics By Stuart Gillespie Classical Genres and English Poetry By W H Race
Toby Buchan Beating is Not The Same Thing as Buggery A Touch of Genius: The Life of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown & Julia Cave The Selected Letters of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown (ed)
George Stern Espionage is So Much More Amusing in French The Evil Empire: The Third World War Now By Count de Marenches & Christine Ockrent The Friends: Britain's Post-War Secret Intelligence Operations By Nigel West
Peter Jones Life in them Old Bones? The Poets on the Classics By Stuart Gillespie Classical Genres and English Poetry By W H Race
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