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Issue 03
Autumn 2006

 
 

Columns

Lunch

The Disgruntled Ruminations of an Office Worker Meant for Better Things

Fisher & Sperr

Anna Goodall tangles with literary ghosts at one of north London's finest second-hand bookshops

 
 

Features

Shaw, the Man

Teresa Hudson urges us not to underrate or overlook the life and work of George Bernard Shaw

Care for a Square Dance?

Music criticism is a job for the professionals, says Mark Cobley

The Fantastic Mr Fforde

Helen Lewis in fantasy not just for geeks shocker!

Poetry? Please!

Catherine Murray-Browne takes a look at contemporary verse, (whilst politely encouraging us all to stop writing crap poetry)

 
 

Fiction

 
 

Poetry

 
 

Reviews

The Sea

By John Banville
Picador 2006

The Hall of a Thousand Columns

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith
John Murray 2005

The Swimming-Pool Library

By Alan Hollinghurst
Vintage 2006

Company

By Samuel Beckett
Calder Publications 1996

 
 

Back Pages

Charles Maxwell-House on The Fine Art of Borrowing

Everyone’s favourite old codger continues his literary studies with a shock visit to the public library

 

Contributors Issue 03

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Credits Issue 03

Editors: 
Anna Goodall
Felicity Cloake

Sub-editor: 
Mark Adams

Design:
Hape Mueller

Emblem design: 
Ricky Wilson

Background Illustration: Michael Constantine