August 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: History | Diaries & Letters | Body & Mind | Biography | Fiction | Conflict History Michael Portillo Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party By Graham Stewart Diaries & Letters Clive Bush Wily and Tough Man who Became an Insider Henry James: A Life in Letters By Philip Horne (ed) LR Body & Mind John Clay Voyage of Discovery The Secret of Consciousness: How the Brain Tells the 'Story of Me' By Paul Ableman LR Biography Kathryn Hughes Daughter of a Poet and of a Parallelogram The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter By Benjamin Woolley Fiction Michele Roberts She Finds Herself The Last Life By Claire Messud LR Donald Rayfield Not Undiscovered The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine Conflict Rosemary Righter Spoiled by Vendetta Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga By Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Michael Portillo Revisiting the Perils of Appeasement Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party By Graham Stewart
Clive Bush Wily and Tough Man who Became an Insider Henry James: A Life in Letters By Philip Horne (ed) LR
John Clay Voyage of Discovery The Secret of Consciousness: How the Brain Tells the 'Story of Me' By Paul Ableman LR
Kathryn Hughes Daughter of a Poet and of a Parallelogram The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter By Benjamin Woolley
Donald Rayfield Not Undiscovered The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine
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