OCTOBER1993
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ANDREW KNIGHT The Pursuit ofReason: The Economist 1843-1993 Ruth Dudley Edwards RoBERT KEE Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History R F Foster CHARLES THOMAS The Civilisation ofEurope in the Renaissance I ohn Hale J ULIAN FELLOWES Marie-Antoinette Ian Dunlop J ILL EnwARDSFranco Paul Preston
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FRANK Mc LYNN PeterScott: Painter and Naturalist Elspeth Huxley PAUL ST JoHN MACKINTOSHRodin: TheshapeofGenius Ruth Butler DoNALD TRELFORD Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Life and Death ofthe Little Prince Paul Webster CLUNIE PHIPPS A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor PETER BoTTOMLEY In No Uncertain Terms Helen Suzman BETKA ZAMOYSKAAShort WalkfromHarrods Dirk Bogarde
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EnwARD PEARCE The Green Mare Marcel Ayme
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JOAN SMITH Pleading Guilty Scott Turow ELIZABETH I MLAYThe Robber Bride Margaret Atwood LIZZIE FRANCKE Lasher Anne Rice AusoN WoonHou sE What Men Say Joan Smith
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RosEMARY STOYLE Mr Barrett's Secret and other Stories K.ingsley Amis MATTHEW WHYMAN The Road to Wellville T Coraghessan Boyle lAIN WEATHERBY The Wives ofBath Susan Swan VANESSA LETTS Strip Tease Carl Hiaasen BILL GREENWELL The Young Italians Amanda Prantera
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PETER ASPDEN is the Deputy and Literary Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and writes regularly on Italian cinema .
LIZZIE FRANCKE's book , Script Girls - Women Writers in Hollywood , is due to be published in 1994. She writes regularly for the Guardian and Sight and Sound.
DONALD TRELFORD was Editor of the Observer for 18 years until it was bought by the Guardian in June. He acquired a love of flying and of the aviation epics of SaintExupery while on his National Service. He recently persuaded the RAF to risk a £3 million Tornado by letting him fly as co-pilot.
JONATHAN ROMNEY is Deputy Editor of Sight and Sound magazine. He is also the film critic for the New Statesman.
TERESA GORMAN, Member of Parliament for Billericay, Essex, since 1987, believes that women's rights will assert themselves through the ordinary function of the free market. She is constantly rumoured to be about to launch a challenge to the Conservative leadership on the issue of the Maastricht Treaty .
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