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FAY WELDON The Pardoner
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jULIAN O'HALLORAN The Rift: The Exile Experience of South Africans Hilda Bemstein HILARY MANTEL Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages Georges Duby NICOLA BEAUMAN Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil Service Clive Dewey jONATHAN FOREMAN Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France Sunil Khilnani ALAIN DE BOTTON Fathers and Daughters Sue Sharpe PATRICK O'CONNOR Berlin Cabaret Peter Jelavich ANTONY WOODWARD LAst of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard Samantha W einberg
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WENDY ROWLAND
MIKE PETTY Now That You're Back A L Kennedy EMMA GUINNESS The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Sherman Alexie ESTHER KAPOSI Love is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance (Eds) Joel Rose & Catherine Texier Seduction (Ed) Tony Peake
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FRANK MCLYNN Hardy: The Difinitive Biography Marrin Seymour-Smith SusAN ELKIN Christina Rossetti Frances Thomas
THERESA MAYHEW
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PHlLIP 0AKES
BEll.ES LETTRES
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SILENCED VOICES
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POETRY COMPETITION 63 AND RESULTS
TIM RicE Craig Brown's Greatest Hits Craig Brown MARY SCOTT Literary Englands: Versions of'Englishness' in Modern Writing David Gervais PETER BOTTOMLEY The Selling of Mary Davies and Other Writings Simonjenkins GEOFFREY MACNAB Revolution and the Form of the British Novel NicolaJ Watson
SIOBHAN Down
ANDREW BILLEN is a freelance writer on the Observer. He writes a weekly interview in the Observer Maga z ine.
TIM RICE, who won an Oscar for h.is Wait Disney version of Aladdin, now looks forward to the American opening of his new anima ted film, also with Wait Disney, The Lion King, with music by Elton John . This will be in June. In April he may be touring the West In dies as an expert on cricket. His l ife's ambition, to produce someth.ing with out music and without collabo r ation, seems no closer to ach.ievement.
MILES DONALD has a beard. He comes into the office quite often and makes helpful suggestions.
GLYN BROWN is a writer and critic . She won the 1991 Time 011t Short Story Competition and her fiction has appeared in a number of collect ion s. She has just completed her first novel, T11e Fabulo11s Wild.
HILARY MANTEL's novel about South Africa , A Change of Climate (Viking, £15) , will be published on March 31st. She has almost finished a new novel, as yet untitled , and despite a bad chest infection wh.ich has left her speechless at th e time of going to press, she is also writing a screenp lay for Fludd, her fourth novel.
FRANCIS WHEEN whose best-selling Chatto Book cif Cats inspired William Rushton's cover picture for November's Literary Review , has joined SNIP, the Society for Neutering Islington Pussies. While his two toms, Whimsey and Wooster, worry about this, he writes a weekly political column in the Observer Magazine and a monthly one in Rosie Boycott's Esquire.
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LITERARY REVIEW February 1994
