December 1998 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Women | Art | Russia | Memoirs | General | Home Affairs | Foreign Parts | Autobiography | Fiction Women Edwina Currie Who’s Heard Of Her Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life By Georgina Ferry Art Jonathan Keates Works of Faith, Hope and Eroticism Caravaggio: A Life By Helen Langdon LR Russia Anne Applebaum They Did a Good Job Lenin's Embalmers By Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson LR Memoirs Niall Ferguson Safe at Last My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay LR General David Profumo Fancy-Free Mongrel Shows the True Marmalade The Cassell Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green LR Raymond Carr I Just Enjoy It On Hunting By Roger Scruton LR Home Affairs Matthew Parris Fairest And Best This Blessed Plot: Britain And Europe From Churchill To Blair By Hugo Young LR Raymond Seitz First Steps Towards an Urban Ideal The English: A Portrait of a People By Jeremy Paxman Foreign Parts Thomas Pakenham Awe-Inspiring Account of Himalayas and Hindu Kush Among The Mountains: Travels in Asia By Wilfred Thesiger LR Autobiography Sean Day-Lewis Poets Should Choose Their Partners with Care Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas By Caitlin Thomas LR Fiction A S Byatt Their Normal Daily Lives Punctuated by Disaster The Love of a Good Woman By Alice Munro
David Profumo Fancy-Free Mongrel Shows the True Marmalade The Cassell Dictionary of Slang By Jonathon Green LR
Matthew Parris Fairest And Best This Blessed Plot: Britain And Europe From Churchill To Blair By Hugo Young LR
Raymond Seitz First Steps Towards an Urban Ideal The English: A Portrait of a People By Jeremy Paxman
Thomas Pakenham Awe-Inspiring Account of Himalayas and Hindu Kush Among The Mountains: Travels in Asia By Wilfred Thesiger LR
Sean Day-Lewis Poets Should Choose Their Partners with Care Double Drink Story: My Life with Dylan Thomas By Caitlin Thomas LR
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