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THIS MONTH'S PULP IT is w rit te n by David Pryce-J ones, author of fiction and non-fiction , including Tire Closed Circle: A11 l111erpretntio11 of the Arabs.

ALISTAIR. HOR E's last book , How Far Jrot/1 A usterlitz? Napoleo11 18051815, is ava ilabl e from Papermac at £ 12 . His Seve11 A<~es of Paris will be pub l ished by M acmi ll an next autumn. While on warti m e military service, he was attached to M IS's Midd le East branch.

CAROL INE MOOil..EHEAD i s the autho r of Ou11a11t 's Drea m: ~Var , Swit zerlaud artd th e Hi story of th e Red Cross and, most recentl y, Iris Origo. She is working on a l ife of Martha Gellhorn.

VER.NON BOGDAN R. is the author of Devolutiou i11 th e Uuited Ki11gdom. H e is c urren tl y writi ng a book about the British onst i tution for A li en Lane The Penguin Press .

RI CHARD GOTT is working on a book about Cuba for Yale University Press.

jE SS ICA MA s Han<~ing Fire is avai lable in paperback thi s month from Allison & Busby.

J OHN McEwE 's monograph of M ic h ae l San del will be published in th e Spring.

HER. IDAN M ORLEY is the drama c riti c of the l 11t ematio11al H era ld Trib1111 e. Hi s authorised Giel g ud biography, j olt11 C, has sold out of three hardback editions this year and will shortly be avai lable as a paperbac k and an audiotape. His pertator nr th e Theatre has just been publi shed by Oberon.

PULPIT

PATRIOTS & T RAITORS

BIOGRAPHY

ADVENTURERS

INTERVIEW

BELLES LETTRES

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DAVID PR.YCE-J ONES

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V ER.NON BOGDA NOR Ch11rchill Roy J enkins ALUN CHALFONT The Full Monty: Morttgomery of Alamei11 1887-1942 Nige l H ami l ton FRA IS KIN G Arrtlrony Blunt: Hi s Lives Miranda Carter

9 BRENDA MADD OX The Partklt~~rsts Martin Pugh 10 RI CHARD GOTT Sen ior Service Carlo Feltrine lli 12 ANDR.EW LYCETT Peggy Cuggenheim: The L ife of an Art

Addict Anton G ill 13 SHER.I DAN M ORl.EY Stan and Ollie: The Root s of Co tnedy

Simo n Louvi s h

14 SARAH ANDERSON Cherry Sara Wheeler 16 J W M THOMPSON Storyteller: The Many Lives of

Laurens van der Po st J D F ]on es

18 SEBA TIAN SHAKESPEARE TALKS TO j G BALLARD

23 DJ TAYLOR Holy Dread: Diaries 1982-1984 J a mes

Lees-Miln e 24 J ESS ICA MA N Ups and Dow11 s Frances Partridge 25 PETER WA SH IN GTON The Plrilosop lry of Sa rttll e! Becket f J ohn

Ca lder Ho w It Wa s: A Mwroir of amttel Beckett Anne Atik

LETTER FROM YEMEN 27 TIM MACKI TOSH-SMITH

OPPRESSION

MEMOIRS

28 AID AN HARTL EY Tire W ee kertders Alex Garland , W F

Deedes, l rvin e Welsh , Giles Foden , Victoria Glendinning , Tony H awks, Andrew O'Hagan 29 j ONAT HAN MlR KY Burma: T he C urse of I ndependence

S h e lb y Tu c ker Th e H eart Must Break: The Fig ht for D e111ocra cy and Tmth in B11rma J ames Mawdsley

30 ALISTAIR H ORNE Open Secret: The Autobiography of Tire

Former Direc tor - Cweral of M I5 Stella Rimington 32 ALAN WATKIN S Betty Bootlrroyd: Tir e Autobiography 33 ANTH ONY DANIEl.S Uncle Turtgst en: Memoirs of a

Clremical Boyhood Oliver Sacks 35 CAROLINE MOOREHEAD The Dress ing Statio11: A

Surgeon's Odyssey J onathan Kaplan 35 CHRISTOPHER 0NDAATJE Wildlife Wars Richard Leak ey a n d Virginia Morell 37 jAMES DELl GPOLE Daydrea /11 Beli eve r Hu gh M assingberd

Editor: NA CV SLADEK Depwy Editor: THOMAS HODGKI SON Editorial Assistatlf: CHARLIE AMPBELL

General Assistant: ELEANOR PEERS Comribu ting Editor: SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEAlli Brtsirtess & Advertisi11g Manager: R.OBERT POSNER

Fou11dirtg Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Foundi11g Fat/r er: AUBERON WAUGH

Cover illit stmtioll by Clrris Ridde/1

Isme no. 281

LITERARY REVIEW November 2001