From the April 1992 Issue Fair Treatment for the Belgian Sex Maniac The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon By Patrick Marnham LR
From the November 1992 Issue When He Sat Down His Tongue Came Out The Selected Letters of Philip Larkin By Anthony Thwaite (ed) LR
From the October 1998 Issue Lost Her Strangeness Zarafa: The True Story of a Giraffe's Journey from the Plains of Africa to the Heart of Post-Napoleonic France By Michael Allin LR
From the October 1994 Issue Did You Get Black Truffles on the Nose? Chateau Latour: The History of a Great Vineyard 1331-1992 By Charles Higounet (ed) (Translated by Edmund Penning-Rowsell) Haut-Brion By Asa Briggs LR
From the December 1991 Issue Two Spinsters Learn How to Enjoy Themselves Abroad In the Vine Country By Somerville and Ross LR
From the March 1996 Issue Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy? The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France By Robert Darnton LR
From the March 1991 Issue Oy-oy-oy! Czech Mate Too Loud a Solitude By Bohumil Hrabal (Translated by Michael Henry Heim) LR
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