September 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Literary biography | Foreign History | Memoirs | Biography | Fiction Literary biography John Banville A Selfish Man Condemned to Live in Ireland Jonathan Swift By Victoria Glendinning Douglas Johnson He Had So Much to Say André Gide: A Biography By Alan Sheridan LR Foreign History Raymond Carr How Stalin Ruined the Spanish Republic Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War By Gerald Howson LR Anne Applebaum Miraculous Survival Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving Stalin's Gulag By Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson LR Anthony Blond Too Much to Do The Grand Strategy of Philip II By Geoffrey Parker LR Memoirs A N Wilson True Story of How He Finally Captured Her Iris By John Bayley LR Anthony Clare Proving that Life Isn’t Fair My Year Off: Rediscovering Life after a Stroke By Robert McCrum LR Biography Brenda Maddox No One Saw Him Paint Jack Yeats By Bruce Arnold LR Fiction A S Byatt Shocker to the End Amsterdam By Ian McEwan LR Kate Kellaway Let Us Be Grateful for the Wow-Wow Sauce England, England By Julian Barnes LR
Raymond Carr How Stalin Ruined the Spanish Republic Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War By Gerald Howson LR
Anne Applebaum Miraculous Survival Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving Stalin's Gulag By Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson LR
Anthony Clare Proving that Life Isn’t Fair My Year Off: Rediscovering Life after a Stroke By Robert McCrum LR
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