May 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Foreign Parts | Women | Memoirs | Fiction Foreign Parts David Pryce-Jones Among the Muslims who Are Not Arabs Beyond Belief By V S Naipaul LR Women Gill Hornby All Hellbent on their Own Destruction Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women By Elizabeth Wurtzel LR Memoirs A N Wilson Second Stout Volume Dark Horses By Karl Miller LR Fiction Auberon Waugh A Noble Stand from a Very Clever Novelist Dream Children By A N Wilson LR
Gill Hornby All Hellbent on their Own Destruction Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women By Elizabeth Wurtzel LR
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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