April 1995 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: History | General | Fiction | Biography History Richard Acton A Blue Robe For Poor Henry Lancaster & York: The Wars of the Roses By Alison Weir LR General Fiona Shaw Year of the Woman Script Girls By Lizzie Francke LR Fiction Geoff Nicholson Likeable, Readable and Deceptively Profound High Fidelity By Nick Hornby LR Biography Frank McLynn Eastern Sage Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man By Andrew Robinson and Krishna Dutta LR
Frank McLynn Eastern Sage Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man By Andrew Robinson and Krishna Dutta LR
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