October 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Memoirs | Biography | Film | Fiction Memoirs Margaret Forster In Love And Politics Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, to 1962 By Doris Lessing LR Biography John Banville He Discovered the True Philosopher’s Stone Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer By Michael White LR Film Margaret Leclere Stuck in Rotten Parts 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome' An Autobiography By Christopher Lee LR Pete Clark Not Recommended The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume One By Hunter S Thompson LR Fiction Philip Oakes Bloody and For Real Night Train By Martin Amis LR
Margaret Forster In Love And Politics Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, to 1962 By Doris Lessing LR
John Banville He Discovered the True Philosopher’s Stone Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer By Michael White LR
Margaret Leclere Stuck in Rotten Parts 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome' An Autobiography By Christopher Lee LR
Pete Clark Not Recommended The Proud Highway: The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume One By Hunter S Thompson LR
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In just thirteen years, George Villiers rose from plain squire to become the only duke in England and the most powerful politician in the land. Does a new biography finally unravel the secrets of his success?
John Adamson investigates.
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During the 1930s, Winston Churchill retired to Chartwell, his Tudor-style country house in Kent, where he plotted a return to power.
Richard Vinen asks whether it’s time to rename the decade long regarded as Churchill’s ‘wilderness years’.
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Richard Vinen: Croquet & Conspiracy - Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter
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