John Banville on Victoria Glendinning's new biography JONATHAN SWIFT PENNED DOWN PEOPLE: Jack Yeats * Andre Gide * George Ill * Karajan Richard & Isabel Burton * Florence Nightingale * Janacek

Honor Fraser falls for Vivienne Westwood PLACES: Ian Buruma lunches chez Marcos Raymond Carr arms for Spain * Applebaum goes to the Gulag IDEAS: Bryan Appleyard EXPLAINS all human WISDOM

Doris Lessing EXPLORES the STONE AGE

HEALTH: John Bayley on his Iris

Clare on McCrum's stroke * Margaret Forster's precious lives

Peregrine Worsthorne on his Gout

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SEPTEMBER FICTION: Ian McEWAN, Julian BARNES, Hilary MANTEL

William TREVOR, Sebastian FAULKS, Justin CARTWRIGHT...

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