December 2000 Issue This is an incomplete listing of issue contents Jump to: Letters | Women | Men | Pleasures of Life | General Letters Simon Heffer Off His Pedestal Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life By Translated by Robert Spaethling (ed) LR Women Kenneth Rose She Trumped Them All Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece By Hugo Vickers Edwina Currie She Preferred to Drink with the Fellahs Mo Mowlam: The Biography By Julia Langdon Men Juliet Barker Poet who Remains as Elusive as Ever Thomas Gray: a Life By Robert L Mack LR Pleasures of Life Teresa Waugh She Taught Us that Bouillon Won’t Do Is There a Nutmeg in the House? By Elizabeth David LR General Christopher Frayling Little Man Lost in His Dark Grey Suit The Hitchcock Murders By Peter Conrad LR Peter Jones No Hiding Place The Dream of Reason By Anthony Gottlieb LR A C Grayling A Vital Debate Science and Poetry By Mary Midgley
Simon Heffer Off His Pedestal Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life By Translated by Robert Spaethling (ed) LR
Teresa Waugh She Taught Us that Bouillon Won’t Do Is There a Nutmeg in the House? By Elizabeth David LR
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