MARCH 1998
BRITISH FICTION
COMPETITION RESULTS
3 4 WILLIAM B ovD Tire Last King of Scotland Giles Foden 35 ANDREW BISWE LL Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer Russell Hoban 3 5 GILL HORNBY Other People's Children Joanna Trollope 36 HUMPHREY CARPENTER Soft Rupert Thomson 37 CRISTINA 0DONE Bilton Andrew Martin 38 SUSAN CROSLAND Heat Sally Emerson 39 CLARISSA BURDEN Wives of th e Fish ermen Angela Huth 40 CHRISTOPHER HART ON LONDON NOVELS
4 1 'PORT IN A STORM' THE N OVAL N OVEL COMPETITION
LETTER FROM INDIA
FOREIGN FICTION
OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Q UIZ
42 J OHN THIEME
44 VI CTORIA GLENDINNING Man or Mango? Lucy Ellman 45 KATHERINE K.NORJ<. Wobegon Boy Garrison Keillor 46 PAUL SAYER Purple America Rick Moody 47 HARRIET SERGEANT Th e Deep Green Sea Robert O len Butler 48 DENNIS SEWELL That Other Lifetim e Mark Maxwell 49 LOUISE D ouGHTY Tiu S01md rif One Hand Clappi11g
Richard Flanagan 49 SARAH HURST Karoo Steve Tesich 50 FELIX BENJAMIN Give 'Ern Hell, Hari Ajay Singh
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GENERAL
52 FRANCIS SPUFFORD Darwin Among the Machines George Dyson 53 PATRICK O'CONNOR Rosa Por1sel/e: Americart Diva Mary Jane
Phillips-Matz, Sign-Offfor th e Old Met: Th e Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1950-1966 Paul Jackson 54 ALEX WEBB Th e Aesthetics rif Mt~sic Roger Scruton 56 CLAUS VON BOLOW Rif/ections rif an Independent Mind
Eugene Victor Thaw
CRIME
SILENCED VOICES
CHlLDREN'S BOOKS
PAPERBACKS
POETRY COMPETITION AND RESULTS
56 PHILIP OAKES
58 SIOBHAN D owo
59 MICHAEL THORN
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SIM ON Y ATES first reached notoriety as 'the one that cut the rope ' in Joe Simpson's awardwinning account of their epic srruggle for survival in Touching the Void. His Against th e Wall, which tells of hi s struggle to co nquer one of the world's largest rock-faces, the 4000-foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile, is now out in paperback from Vintage . SUSAN CRO LAND, author of such elegant bestsellers as Ruling Pass ion s, Dangerous Games, and T11 e Magnates (published here by Orion, and in eight other countries), is putting t h e finishing touches to her latest novel, Crossing th e Loke, to be published in the autunm. It is rumoured to be abo u t the impa ct of an English circus on an upstate New York community. PAUL SAVER's latest novel, Th e God Child, has re ce ntly been published in paperback by Bloomsbury (£6 .99) . His sixth book, Me11 in Rage, will appear in the autunm. T M POCOCK has written six books about Nelson and hi s time . His other many works include biographies of Alan Moorehead and Sir Rider Haggard, and studies of Venice and Norfolk . His Battle for Empire: T11 e Very First World War 1756-63 will appear next month . ALEXANDER WAUGI-1 has produced a successful CD of Bon Voyage!, the award-winning musical comedy he wrote and produ ce d with his brother Nathaniel. CARLOS MAVROLEON is a journalist and documentary maker specialising in foreign current affai rs, particu l arly Mghanistan and Somalia.
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