December 1997 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: From the Pulpit | History | Women | Modern History | Bad Sex | Fiction From the Pulpit Auberon Waugh No Literary Mafia in This House LR History Robin Blackburn We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870 By Hugh Thomas LR Women Richard Dorment An Actress, perhaps, but Granny was not a Tart The Actress and the Brewer's Wife: Two Victorian Vignettes By Virginia Surtees LR Modern History Ian Gilmour How Britain’s European Future was Compromised Collapse of the Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories By Julian Critchley and Morrison Halcrow LR Bad Sex Auberon Waugh A Sad Plop The Matter of the Heart By Nicholas Royle Fiction Guy Bellamy Still Writing Fiction, All Those Seatons Later Alligator Playground By Alan Sillitoe LR
Robin Blackburn We Must Learn How The Modern World Was Made The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440–1870 By Hugh Thomas LR
Richard Dorment An Actress, perhaps, but Granny was not a Tart The Actress and the Brewer's Wife: Two Victorian Vignettes By Virginia Surtees LR
Ian Gilmour How Britain’s European Future was Compromised Collapse of the Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories By Julian Critchley and Morrison Halcrow LR
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