OCTOBER 1991

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

LETTERS

35 T ARIQ Au Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography 36 DENNIS SEw ELL Life at the Centre Roy Jenkins 37 JoHN SwEENEY A Moment ofWar Laurie Lee 38 MICHAEL DoBSON Leader, The Autobiography Gary Glitter with Lloyd Bradley 39

A TAXI DRIVER WRITES 40 MARTYN HALCROW POLITICS 41 DAYID CHIPP Thailand: The Last Domino Richard West

42 CLARE O'BRIEN The Glass Curtain: Inside an Ulster

Community Carlo Gebler 43 J ULIAN DuPLAIN The R eluctant President: A Political Life of

Vaclav Havel Michael Sirnmons

GENERAL

VICTORIANS

44 ANN 0AKLEY The Change: Women, Ageing and Menopause

Germaine Greer 45 PATRICK O'CoNNORGreat Artists in Close Up: Matisse,

Picasso and M ir6- As I Knew Them Rosamond Bernier 46 SIMON HoGGART In Search ofColumbus Hunter Davies 47 CLAIR£ MONK A Twentieth Century Job G Cabrera Infante 48 J ANET GRUBER VoN KERENSHAZY Ghosts ofKing Solomon's

Mines Graham Lord 49 RHODA KoENIG Ned Sherrin's Theatrical Anecdotes: A

Connoisseur's Collection ofLegends, Stories and Gossip Ned Sherrin so JoHN KEMP Tobacco: A History VG Kiernan

52 JoHN BAYLEY The King of Inventors: A Life ofWilkie Collins

Catherine Peters 54 KATHRYN HuGHES Queen Victoria, A Portrait Giles St Aubyn

Heart of a Queen: Queen Victoria's Romantic Attachments Theo Aronson ss JWM THOMPSON Trollope: A Biography N John Hall 56 RoBERT CARVER From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard

Burton's Travels in America 1860-1869 Frank McLynn 57 FRANK McLYNN Darwin Adrian Desmond and James Moore 59 MICHAEL THORN Victorian Ghost Stories, An Oxford

Anthology (Edd) Michael Cox and R A Gilbert

CRIME

60 PHILIP 0AKES

WINE OFFER

61 DAVID STEVENS MW

WRITERS DETAINED 63 SIOBHAN Dowo POETRYCONWETnnON AND RESULTS 64

GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, who writes pithily and well in the Telegraph, Daily Mail and Evening Standard, is also engaged on a book about the Wagner family, when not squabbling with the Inland Revenue about his tax assessment.

TONY PARSONS is a prizewinning journalist and a bestselling novelist. His latest book, George Michael: Bare, co-authored with the hirsute crooner, is out as a Penguin paperback.

MARTYN HALCROW drives a black cab in London.

STEPHEN AMIDON 's new novel Thirst is set in the New West. I t will be published by Bloomsbury in March.

AAMER HUSSEIN is a contributor to Colours of a New Day: Writing for South Africa (Penguin) .

ANDREW BEST, who was a literary agent with Curtis Brown for twenty years, has recently set up as an independent literary consultant from his home in Knatchbull Road, Camberwell.

SIMON WARD is currently appearing as Edward Brakesby, the hypochondriac pig farmer, in the new BBC series 'Lovejoy'.

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