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ROBERT KEE, the author and broadcaster, will be publishing a biography of Pamell with Hamish Hamilton next month. Entitled The Laurel and che I vy, it will also tell the story of Irish nationalism .

HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, who became Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, after holding Regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford, has written too many , too well-known books to list. He now lives in rural retirement in Berkshire, having been elevated to the peerage in the barony of Dacre ofGlanton.

RICHARD ACTON, once employed as a legal adviser to the Zimbabwe Government, now lives in Iowa ·from which he flies to London to attend House of Lords debates on the Maastricht Treaty.

ANDREW KNIGHT was Editor of the Economise 1974-86 before becoming Editor in Chief and Chief Executive at the Telegraph 1987-1989. He is now Executive Chairman of News International, Chairman of Times Newspapers Holdings and a Director of News Corporation Limited .

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1 AuBERON WAUGH

4 L YNN BARBER Tricks ofMemory Peregrine Worsthorne 6 DAVID PAscoE TheLifeandManyDeathsofHarryHoudini

Ruth Brandon 7 RoGER CALDWELL The Future Lasts a Long Time and The Facts

Louis Althusser 8 JuLIAN FELLOWEsHowardHughes: TheSecretLifeCharles

Higharn 10 GILL HoRNBY A Right Royal Bastard Sarah Miles

12 HuGH TREVOR-ROPERMoreofA Certain Age Nairn Attallah 13 JEsSICA MANN The Fountain of Youth Betty Friedan 14 PETER AsPDEN Fellini John Baxter

15 JOHN D uGDALE Pursued by Furies : A Life ofMalcolm Lowry

Gordon Bowker 17 JoNATHAN RoMNEY Georges Perec: A Life in Words David

Bellos 18 MARINA BENJAMIN Caitlin Paul Ferris 19 IAN THOMSON The Life ofJoseph Conrad John Batchelor

21 BRYAN APPLEYARD United States: Essays 1952-1992

Gore Vidal 22 PETER LEVI TheMagusoftheNorth:J G Hamannandthe

Origins of Unseen Irrationalism Isaiah Berlin 24 PATRICK TAYLOR-MARTIN DrJohnsonandMrSavage

Richard Holmes

25 TERESA GoRMAN By Faith and Daring: Interviews with

Remarkable Women Glenys Kinnock 26 MARYBETH HAMILTON S exing the Millennium Linda Grant 28 ANTHONY DANIELS In the Forests of the Night: Encounters in

Peru with Terrorism, Drug-Running and Military Oppression John Simpson 29 JANET GRuBER Obscure Kingdoms Edward Fox 30 DAVID CHIPP Prejudice and Plum Brandy: Tales ofa Balkan

Stringer Alec Russell 31 ANTHONY WooowARD Kieslowski on Kieslowski (Ed) Danusia

Stock 32 ANN GENEVA Italian Gardens Charles A Plan 34 RICHARD AcTON Educating William: Memoirs ofa Hollywood

Correspondent Williarn Cash

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