August 1992 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Fiction | Exploration | Biography Biography Bryan Appleyard At last we learn what Foucault was All About Michel Foucault By Didier Eribon LR Anne Somerset In Many Ways our Henry was an Incurable Romantic The Six Wives of Henry VIII By Antonia Fraser LR David Pascoe On the Trail of Large Bottoms James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 By Peter Costello LR Sue Crewe I Should Be So Lucky Keeper of the Gate: Behind the Scenes in the Reagan White House By Selwa 'Lucky' Roosevelt LR Fiction Katherine Frank Gather Ye Rosebuds Gather Ye Rosebuds By Anita Brookner LR Exploration Kathryn Hughes Kings of their own Castles Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa By Frank McLynn LR Biography J W M Thompson Taffy Redivivus Lloyd George By Chris Wrigley LR David Chipp Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography By Harrison E Salisbury LR
Anne Somerset In Many Ways our Henry was an Incurable Romantic The Six Wives of Henry VIII By Antonia Fraser LR
David Pascoe On the Trail of Large Bottoms James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 By Peter Costello LR
Sue Crewe I Should Be So Lucky Keeper of the Gate: Behind the Scenes in the Reagan White House By Selwa 'Lucky' Roosevelt LR
Kathryn Hughes Kings of their own Castles Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa By Frank McLynn LR
David Chipp Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography By Harrison E Salisbury LR
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