October 1989 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Fiction | International Fiction | Oppression | Politics | Science | Biography | Women | Autobiography Fiction Lynne Truss Prose Clothes The Anna Papers By Ellen Gilchrist LR International Fiction Simon Rees Pressure of a Cork Foucault’s Pendulum By Umberto Eco (Translated by William Weaver) LR Nick Hornby Laced With Tension The Mezzanine By Nicholson Baker LR Oppression Raymond Carr Getting to Know the Sticks & Stones Outside Days By Max Hastings LR Politics Matt Seaton Going Down the Drain Europe, Europe By Hans Magnus Enzensberger Science Will Self Muddy Waters The Conquest of Water By Jean-Pierre Goubert LR Biography Elizabeth Longford Six of the Best Eminent Victorians By A N Wilson LR Antonia Nashe Slicing a Fruitcake Huxley in Hollywood By David King Dunaway LR Women Sonia Ashmore Some Of Them Painted Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement By Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn LR Autobiography Kate Saunders Jolly Hockey Sticks Stare Back and Smile By Joanna Lumley
Sonia Ashmore Some Of Them Painted Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement By Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn LR
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