September 1999 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Biography | Britain | General | Fiction Biography Patrick Taylor-Martin His Architecture Soaked in his Personality John Soane: An Accidental Romantic By Gillian Darley John Soane, Architect By Margaret Richardson (ed) LR Britain Francis Wheen He Names the Guilty Men The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair By Peter Hitchens LR General Jeremy Lewis A Worthy Enthusiasm The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays By Ian Hamilton (ed) LR Fiction Kate Kellaway Finally Relents Destiny By Tim Parks LR D J Taylor They Finished Their Drinks and Left The Soldier's Return By Melvyn Bragg LR
Patrick Taylor-Martin His Architecture Soaked in his Personality John Soane: An Accidental Romantic By Gillian Darley John Soane, Architect By Margaret Richardson (ed) LR
Francis Wheen He Names the Guilty Men The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair By Peter Hitchens LR
Jeremy Lewis A Worthy Enthusiasm The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Essays By Ian Hamilton (ed) LR
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