July 1989 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: International Fiction | Biography | Autobiography | General International Fiction Paul Theroux Smok Runs Amok The King of the Fields By Isaac Bashevis Singer LR Biography Victoria Glendinning She Adored Cockneys Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography By Claire Harman LR Autobiography Hilary Mantel In Her Black Books A Bright Remembrance: The Diaries of Julia Cartwright By Angela Emanuel (ed) LR General Colin Wilson Murder Mile Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood By Judith Summers LR Marina Warner Emperor’s New Clothes The Bride Stripped Bare By Janet Hobhouse The Nude: A New Perspective By Gill Saunders LR
Hilary Mantel In Her Black Books A Bright Remembrance: The Diaries of Julia Cartwright By Angela Emanuel (ed) LR
Colin Wilson Murder Mile Soho: A History of London's Most Colourful Neighbourhood By Judith Summers LR
Marina Warner Emperor’s New Clothes The Bride Stripped Bare By Janet Hobhouse The Nude: A New Perspective By Gill Saunders LR
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