NOVEMBER 1991

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34 VICTORIA MATHER Depardieu Marianne Gray 35 KATHY O'SHAUGHNESSY Schwarzenegger: A Portrait George

Butler 36 GILL HoRN BY Rex Harrison Nicholas Wapshott Celia]ohnson

Kate Flerning 37 BRYAN FoRBES A Life to Remember Williarn MacQuitty 38 CHARLES SHAAR MuRRAY Dame Edna Everage John Lahr

40 JANET BARRON

41 JOY GREENLEY The Runaway Soul Harold Brodkey 42 N ICOLETTE J ONES The Unforgiving Charlotte Cory 43 JAMES RoGERS The Last Voyage ofSomebody the Sailor John

Barth 44 Su sAN J EFFREYS Bloody Margaret: Three Political Fantasies

MarkLawson 45 CRESSIDA CoNNOLLY I Cannot Get You Close Enough, Three

Novellas Ellen Gilchrist 46 HELEN MIL ES The Butcher Alina Reyes 47 AAMER HussEIN The Campaign Carlos Fuentes

48 AN DREW BE T The Scramble for Africa Thomas Pakenham 49 MARTIN WALKER The Second Russian Revolution: Despatches from the Front Gary Hart 52 HuNTER DAVJESChristopher Columbus- a roundup of eight books 54 AN DREW BILLEN Maximum City: The Biography of New York

Michael Pye 55 DAviD CHI PP No Full Stops in India Mark Tully

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58 CLAIRE COLVIN

59 PHILIP 0AKES

61 FRITZ PoscH

62 SIOBHAN Down

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MICHAEL DOBSON is the author of Authorizing Shakespeare, due out from Oxford University Press in the Spring. He has shaken hands with Sir Ian McKellen, knew Imogen Stubbs at university, and once went to a disco in Vancouver with Juliet Stevenson and Fiona Shaw.

HENRY KELLY is a journalist and broadcaster who has been trying to earn a living writing for 25 years. He never refuses a genuine offer and is at the moment presenting BBC television's European quiz programme Going For Gold.

BENEDICT READ is Henry Moore Lecturer in Sculpture Studies at Leeds University and is the author of Victorian Sculpture (Yale University Press). He is also the Editor and Co-Author of PreRaphaelite Sculpture just published by Lund Humphries.

HUNTER DAVIES is the author of In Search of Columbus (SinclairStevenson), reviewed by Simon Hoggart in the October issue of Literary Review.

SUSAN JEFFREYS is a writer and broadcaster who was once Features Editor at The Listener. She is now concentrating on flamenco dancing and her tennis backhand .

MARTYN HALCROW is getting stranger and stranger. When not driving a taxi he sometimes watches Party Conferences on television . Recentl y, he burst out laughing when alone in a crowded restaurant.

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