May 1989 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: From the Pulpit | Biography | Fiction | Topography | General From the Pulpit Tenth Anniversary: Four Editors Remember LR Biography Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Barbara Cartland’s Greatest Fan The Mountbattens By Anthony Lambton Tim Hulse Lennon’s Bit of Stuff Brian Epstein: The Man who Made the Beatles By Ray Coleman Patrick Taylor-Martin A Good Bottle Man Sir Robert Walpole By BW Hill LR Christine Eccles How Pleasant to Know the Old Rip Backward Glances By John Gielgud Christopher Hitchens Enoch Who Hurt Me So Dreadfully The Lives of Enoch Powell By Patrick Cosgrave LR Fiction Julian Barnes Butler Peels His Own Onion The Remains of the Day By Kazuo Ishiguro LR Edmund White You Can’t Tell Them Apart Equal Affections By David Leavitt LR Nigel Farndale The Honourable Dumpling I Served the King of England By Bohumil Hrabal (Translated by Paul Wilson) LR Topography John Bayley Doing the Charleston A Turn in the South By V S Naipaul General Sonia Ashmore Protest and Survive The Greenpeace Story By Michael Brown and John May LR Wallace Arnold Lady Van Der Post Writes A Little Light Friction By Val Hennessy LR
Christopher Hitchens Enoch Who Hurt Me So Dreadfully The Lives of Enoch Powell By Patrick Cosgrave LR
Nigel Farndale The Honourable Dumpling I Served the King of England By Bohumil Hrabal (Translated by Paul Wilson) LR
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