The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 2006:
The boy who fell to earth
Jun 04, 2006; ... It happened in Montreal, when I was about seven years old, I'dthink - so let's say Montreal 1943, either spring or fall, because Iwas dressed for weather that was neither hot nor cold: short greytrousers, fresh new shirt, short socks and light shoes, shoes I couldrun and jump in, shoes I ...
Harris tweed and goats on leads
Jun 04, 2006; ... MY FAVOURITE FARMING JOKE IS THE ONE about the three-legged pig. Acity slicker visits a farm for the day and is amazed by the speedwith which a pig, challenged in the leg department, is able tonegotiate the farmyard. 'That's quite an animal,' says the city-dweller. 'Indeed,' replies the ...
A FEW HOMES TRUTHS A.M. Homes has partied with David Bowie and talked babies with PHILIP Roth. Now New York's best-connected writer wants America to make some cool friends, too. Susan Dominus meets her.
Jun 04, 2006; ... I MEET A.M. HOMES AT ST AMBROEUS, AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT in theleafy West Village neighbourhood of New York, where she has lived foryears. It's the kind of place where you can run into Sarah JessicaParker at the local playground or catch sight of Julia Roberts'shusband on his bike. Before ...
The very image of the sixties Psychedelic swirls, bubble writing and flower power summon up the summer of love and the spirit of an era when everything was groovy. Dominic Sandbrook visits 'Sixties graphics', the V & A's new exhibition
Jun 04, 2006; ... FOUR DECADES AFTER THE HEYDAY OF SWINGING London, we are allwearily familiar with the iconic images of the 1960s. The Beatleswith their narrow ties and mop-tops, a Bond girl painted entirely ingold, Bobby Moore lifting the World Cup - all of this is immediatevisual shorthand for a period ...
A suitable ploy VIKRAM SETH DOESN'T LIKE TO REPEAT HIMSELF. WHICH IS WHY - AFTER HIS CALIFORNIAN NOVEL IN VERSE AND HIS INDIAN EPIC IN PROSE - HE'S TURNING CHINESE POETRY INTO OPERA. HE TALKS TO MICHAEL WHITE
Jun 04, 2006; ... TO USE A FARMING METAPHOR THAT DOESN'T flatter them, some writersare battery stock, driven to produce that new book every second year;others are free-range, happy (more or less) to peck around until thenext idea turns up. Vikram Seth is definitely free-range. If he's bothering to ...
ASK THE AUTHOR DOUGLAS COUPLAND Q&A The novelist Douglas Coupland brought us Generation X and microserfs. In turn they brought him fame and riches. He's not had a 'proper job' since 1989. So why is he still satirising worker-geeks in cubicles? SEVEN READERS ask, he tells
Jun 04, 2006 ... You invented Generation X and popularised 'slacker culture' ...NC, London No. I was just doing what I do and people sort of stuck that on tome. It's not like I spend my days thinking that way. But I reallywas sick of being told The Beach Boys were part of my generation ....
Art ON CONSTABLE
Jun 04, 2006; ... A self-portrait drawing of 1806 serves as prelude to TateBritain's new exhibition, Constable: The Great Landscapes. It is asmall image - about nine inches high and six across - but a vividmemento, none the less, of the young painter's forceful anddistinctly stubborn personality. He has ...
ART 2
Jun 04, 2006; ... There's nothing new in contemporary art, they say, but at theenormous Dieter Roth exhibition at Hauser and Wirth's vast, new EastEnd gallery, I saw something I hadn't seen before: the late Germanartist's studio floor and table-tops have been hung on the walls asworks of art. The drips ...
Cinema
Jun 04, 2006; ... HHHHI United 93 HHHII Poseidon There are some images you know you'll never shake. September 11,2001 laid on a lifetime of them. The first plane slamming into theWorld Trade Centre. The second one following suit. The Pentagonsmouldering after a third pitched into its side. But ...
OTHER FILMS
Jun 04, 2006 ... Wah-Wah (15) HHIII Waaah-waaah more like. Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographicalcoming-of-age story is one of the more blubby self-indulgences to hitthe big screen for a while. Set in Swaziland in the late 1960s,Gabriel Byrne and Miranda Richardson star as Harry and ...
Dance The Canterville Ghost Tango por Dos
Jun 04, 2006; ... Once upon a time 'new Tuckett ballet' was a rather depressingphrase. Royal Ballet-goers used to watch in despair as good ideas,good dancers and good money were wasted on disappointing noveltiessuch as The Crucible and The Turn of the Screw. Though Ashton's 50-minute version of A ...
LOAD DOWN
Jun 04, 2006; ... The Beach Boys: Sloop John B I used to listen to the Beach Boysa lot in the car when I was little and this is still one of myfavourite songs. I remember singing the chorus to it when I was on aFrench exchange. Gomez: Rhythm and Blues Alibi A relaxing and beautiful song, ...
Classical Mazepa Mlada
Jun 04, 2006; ... Though only a decade and a half has passed since the fall of theIron Curtain, it is startling now to recall the Soviet operatic sceneas it was before that world-changing event. The few Russian and othereast European singers to appear with any regularity were a selecthandful of stars ...
POP David Gilmour
Jun 04, 2006; ... The precise, hellishly patient David Gilmour has been slowly andmercilessly squeezing the life out of Pink Floyd ever since he tookover the organisation in a stunning mid-1980s coup. At the RoyalAlbert Hall he plays under his own name, but it's as much a Floydshow as anything has been ...
POP 2 East 17 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Jun 04, 2006; ... 'I am in ecstasy,' reads a lone banner, held high above the headsof a packed Shepherds Bush Empire crowd to welcome the return of theearly-1990s Cockney teen idols East 17. Given that it was BrianHarvey's own frank admission about his drug consumption that beganthe tabloid descent of the ...
Radio Desert Island Discs World Stories: Brazilian Beauties Ottoline and Bertie
Jun 04, 2006; ... Even Sue Lawley (Desert Island Discs, Radio 4, Sunday) didn't getvery far with David Cameron, the grotesque Old Etonian smoothie nowleading the poor old Conservative Party. She tried, a little. Afterher opening career summary, quoting his own claim that family,friends and home were the ...
TELEVISION Sex in the 80s: Madam Cyn's Home Movies Hidden Treasure Houses Buildings That Shaped Britain
Jun 04, 2006; ... It's often said of television programmes that they promise morethan they deliver. There are times, however, when this comes as aconsiderable relief. The blurb for Sex in the 80s: Madam Cyn's HomeMovies (Channel 4, Wednesday), announced that this would be 'an in-depth look at Cynthia ...
CRITICS' CHOICE Opera and concerts
Jun 04, 2006; ... ENO London Coliseum, 0870 145 0200. Cheryl Barker stars inChristopher Alden's new production of Jancek's Makropoulos Case,conducted by Charles Mackerras (Wed, Fri); David Alden's acclaimedstaging of Handel's Ariodante with Alice Coote (Thur, Sat). Holland Park London, 0845 230 ...
CRITICS' CHOICE Rock
Jun 04, 2006; ... Isle of Wight Festival Its finest line-up since its 1970s hippyheyday. The Prodigy, Foo Fighters and Coldplay, with support fromPrimal Scream, Richard Ashcroft and Placebo. Isle of Wight SeaclosePark, Fri-next Sun, 0161 385 3500. Howling Bells Highly promising critical sensations ...
CRITICS' CHOICE Films
Jun 04, 2006; ... Down in the Valley (15). Creepy retro-romance starring EdwardNorton as a mysterious would-be ...
CRITICS' CHOICE Dance
Jun 04, 2006; ... Royal Ballet Royal Opera House, London, 020 7304 4000, Thur: 75thbirthday all-star gala (sold out). Mon-Wed: mixed prog, includingNinette de Valois's 1935 The Rake's Progress and Ashton's updated1953 Homage to the Queen with fresh elements composed by DavidBintley, Michael Corder and ...
CRITICS' CHOICE Theatre
Jun 04, 2006; ... Much Ado About Nothing Swan, Stratford, 0870 609 1110, in rep toOct 12. Marianne Elliott has set her new RSC production in hot,languorous Cuba ....
CRITICS' CHOICE Art
Jun 04, 2006; ... Rembrandt & Co Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 020 8693 5254, Wed to Sep 3.Dutch Golden Age painting as seen through the business dealings ofRembrandt's art dealer, Hendrick Uylenburgh. Thomas Demand Serpentine Gallery, London, 020 7402 6075, Tue toAug 20 ....
THEATRE Titus Andronicus The Seer Sunday in the Park with George
Jun 04, 2006; ... T S Eliot called Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 'one of thestupidest and most uninspired plays ever written'. It is a revengetragedy twisted through with black humour. The Elizabethans, like us,had a taste for extreme violence, and Titus is by no means thegrisliest of their tragedies. (A ...
Art Sales Hali Fair of Textile and Tribal Art
Jun 04, 2006; ... Kaftans, veils, rugs made out of old grain sacks - who would havebelieved 10 years ago that such things would become money-spinners atthe quality end of the art market? When the Hali Fair was first heldin 1998 it was devoted to carpets pure and simple (hali is the modernTurkish word for ...
First Buy, Next Buy
Jun 04, 2006; ... The first paintings I bought were a pair of portraits by thesociety painter Cuthbert Orde, of Sir Cedric Morris and his partner,Arthur Lett-Haines. They were painted in Paris in 1923, and they'reboth oils. Actually, it was the paintings more than the sitters I wasinterested in. I bought ...
FORTHCOMING SALES
Jun 04, 2006 ... Fine British Pottery, Porcelain and Glass, Bonhams New BondStreet, Wednesday. There are several lots of Minton Majolica, amongwhich one of the most eye-catching is a rare 'Spiky Fish' teapot andcover, circa 1875, which has an estimate of pounds 6,000- pounds8,000. British Art ...
Classical
Jun 04, 2006; ... SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 (The Year 1905). Cologne RSO/Bychkov. Avie pounds13.99 One outcome of the Shostakovich centenary year has been therehabilitation of this symphony. On this disc Semyon Bychkov treatsit first and foremost as a symphony and lets its political ...
Pop
Jun 04, 2006; ... PRIMAL SCREAM Riot City Blues Columbia pounds 12.99 Not just 'City Blues' or 'Riot City' or even 'Riot Blues', but'Riot City Blues'. Never a band to use originality's fine nib whenthe magic marker of half-witted pastiche is available, their ninthstudio album is the most ...
DVDs
Jun 04, 2006; ... CINEMA16: AMERICAN SHORT FILMS WARP FILMS, NO CERT, pounds 19.99 The third in Cinema16's impressive series of short-filmcompilations - the previous two having looked at British and Europeandirectors - is a treat. From Todd Solondz's touching comic vignetteFeelings (1984) to ...
Games
Jun 04, 2006; ... SUPER PRINCESS PEACH Nintendo DS, pounds 30.50 She's cute, fluffy and pink. I'm not her target audience. Thataside, I preferred her company to that of the X-Men. She has to savethe Mario Bros from the evil Bowser. She is assisted by Perry, aversatile talking umbrella and by ...
History The author of 'stalingrad' has produced a gripping, revelatory account of the spanish civil war, says ANDREW ROBERTS
Jun 04, 2006; ... The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 BY ANTONY BEEVOR WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON pounds 25, 526 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War inJuly 1936 is causing much reflection in Spain at ...
TITLE DEED: HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS' BY KINGSLEY AMIS
Jun 04, 2006; ... The hero in this novel certainly has the standard Amis'difficulties with girls'. Girls can't think logically, they weep,they are selfish egomaniacs, etc. But in early drafts the hero haddifficulties of a completely different order. He was homosexual. Amisin fact spent a year creating a ...
Counter culture The evil reputation of hell's angels is well- deserved, discovers John Preston
Jun 04, 2006; ... Angels of Death: Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire WILLIAM MARSDEN & JULIAN SHER HODDER & STOUGTON, pounds 17.99, 352 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In his first book, Hell's Angels, published in 1966, the lateHunter S. Thompson wrote, ...
Literature Tom Rosenthal welcomes the completion of the 'Complete' Orwell
Jun 04, 2006; ... The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works ofGeorge Orwell ED BY PETER DAVISON TIMEWELL PRESS, pounds 18.99, 258 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 To declare an interest, I should point out that I used to runSecker & Warburg, which ...
Biography Flaubert was a monkish master of restraint in his work, but not in his life, says Matthew Sturgis
Jun 04, 2006; ... Flaubert: A Life BY FREDERICK BROWN HEINEMANN, pounds 25, 628 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 Rising late, Flaubert would settle to his desk at 1pm, and remainthere - engulfed in a dense nimbus of tobacco smoke - until 1am,striving after le mot ...
History Here is new insight into a key moment in indian history, says Saul David
Jun 04, 2006; ... The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Indian Empire BY JAN DALLEY FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 16.99, 240 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Like the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Miracle of Dunkirkthat came later, the Black Hole of Calcutta is one ...
Music John Gibbens on an evocative memoir by folk-rock's eminence grise
Jun 04, 2006; ... White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s BY JOE BOYD SERPENT'S TAIL, pounds 11.99, 224 pp T pounds 10.99 ( pounds1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Joe Boyd's memoir of his musical adventures is as acute andnatural-sounding as his record productions; and to anyone who ...
History Richard Overy concludes that hitler, like stalin, was shielded by the cult of personality
Jun 04, 2006; ... Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fhrer BY ROGER MOORHOUSE JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20, 300 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 The 20th century is littered with the bodies of assassinatedpoliticians, right, left and centre ....
LITERARY LIFE
Jun 04, 2006; ... Only four of the 19 authors whose works were on the longlist forthe 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize bothered to turn up at Foyle's in theCharing Cross Road to hear the announcement of the shortlist - buttwo of them were delighted that they did. Jerry Brotton (The Sale ofthe Late King's Goods) ...
GEOPOLITICS JUSTIN MAROZZI TAKES A TOUR THROUGH THE ISLAMIC WORLD WITH AN EXPERT GUIDE TO ITS COMPLEXITY
Jun 04, 2006; ... On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the IslamicWorld BY JASON BURKE PENGUIN, pounds 20, 352 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 Foreign correspondents, particularly those who specialise in war,do not tend to hide their light under a ...
Fiction The reissue of a welsh classic cheers Neil Powell
Jun 04, 2006; ... Border Country BY RAYMOND WILLIAMS PARTHIAN BOOKS, pounds 7.99, 436 pp T pounds 7.99 (99p p&p) 0870 428 4115 When Matthew Price, a history lecturer at London University,returns home to visit his sick father Harry in south Wales, hewonders why an elderly ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... MEN OF HONOUR BY ADAM NICOLSON, HARPER PERENNIAL, pounds 7.99 The Battle of Trafalgar confirmed Nelson as one of the greatestheroes of the British nation. But what produced the fighting spiritthat led to overwhelming victory against the French and Spanishfleets? Adam ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... WHY BIRDS SING BY DAVID ROTHENBERG, PENGUIN, pounds 8.99 When the musician and philosopher David Rothenberg discovered thatbirds were responding to his clarinet playing, he embarked on ajourney to find out why, which led him from ancient writings to theAustralian rainforest ....
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... ROME BY MAURO LUCENTINI, PALLAS ATHENE, pounds 19.95 Written by one of Italy's most distinguished journalists, thisincomparable guide to Rome, for many years a favourite in Italy andGermany, is now available in English in a fully updated and newlyillustrated edition. A ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... FAT GIRL BY JUDITH MOORE, PROFILE, pounds 7.99 Tragic, brave and fascinating, this is a remarkable memoir ofobsession with food, and with one's body, by an awardwinning writerwho wanted to write about what being fat was like. For anyone who hasever had a ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... SLEEP WITH ME BY JOANNA BRISCOE, BLOOMSBURY, pounds 7.99 An erotically charged psychological thriller, in which both maleand female members of a yuppie London couple are seduced by the samegirl, a Frenchwoman named Sylvie. Lelia is pregnant at the novel'sstart, and Richard ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 04, 2006; ... IN THE FOLD BY RACHEL CUSK, FABER, pounds 7.99 An unhappily married man revisits a college friend's ancestralhome in the countryside, where years earlier he spent an enchantedevening at a bohemian family party. Now he witnesses ...
SUSANNA YAGER ON NEW CRIME FICTION
Jun 04, 2006; ... The disappearance of a child at the start of a crime novel isgenerally followed by a frantic hunt for a kidnapper/serial killer,with predictable scenes of baffled police following a succession offalse leads to crank up the tension. In Red Leaves (Quercus, pounds12.99) Thomas H. Cook ...
Fiction A pair of superb stories frame this new collection, says Julia Flynn
Jun 04, 2006; ... Is This the Way You Said? BY ADAM THORPE JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 14.99, 278 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Adam Thorpe is always good value, and although this collection ofstories is uneven in quality it begins and ends with an absolutecracker. The ...
Fiction David Robson welcomes a return to the lost world of the roof race
Jun 04, 2006; ... Hav BY JAN MORRIS FABER, pounds 16.99, 301 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 Jan Morris is such a respected travel writer that, when she firstinvented Hav, a small city-state in Asia Minor, a lot of readersnaturally assumed that the place existed ....
BOOK CLUB Monica Ali introduces her choice for june: Julie otsuka's 'when the emperor was divine'
Jun 04, 2006; ... I heard Julie Otsuka being interviewed on Radio 4 when this bookwas first published, three years ago. I went straight out to thebookshop and bought a copy because I thought that her subject matter -the Japanese experience of internment in America during the SecondWorld War - would speak ...
MAY'S BOOK CLUB
Jun 04, 2006 ... There was little disagreement among Seven readers that Homage toCatalonia displays, as M. G. Sherlock put it, 'all the Orwellianvirtues'. Whether George Orwell 'is describing mountain scenery, grimfood and cold, fatigue, boredom, largely useless weaponry' orpolitical betrayal, 'a sense ...
MOTORING The new mercedes is hard to classify, says Neil Lyndon. but it holds an awful lot of people
Jun 04, 2006; ... WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO AGREE on the classification of the newMercedes-Benz R-Class, but I doubt if anybody is going to dissentfrom the proposition that it is a whopper. This vehicle is such aMoby Dick that, if you were planning to go and look it over in theshowroom, you might want to ...
TURN ON GADGETEER SIR GEOFF HURST STAYS ON TARGET WITH SAT-NAV
Jun 04, 2006; ... I'M NOT REALLY A gadget man and for a while I didn't use my sat-nav terribly well, but I have a friend in Australia who has a similarcar with the same system and watching him taught me how to use itproperly. It has a woman's dulcet tones telling me which way to go,but I shut her off ...
TAKE FIVE BIG SCREEN, HOT PIES, TOP POPCORN: WHAT MORE COULD A WORLD CUP FAN ASK FOR?
Jun 04, 2006 ... The World Cup is not just about watching football; it's about howyou watch it. For the true footie ambience, you'll need at least oneof the following B&W XT SERIES SPEAKERS Perfect sound - and the chance to hear the referee described as a'w-----' in all major languages. For ...
The watch lover
Jun 04, 2006; ... There can be few greater honours than to represent your countryin the World Cup finals, writes Nick Hurrell. The fellow residents ofEngland's training camp will have been impressed by the thoughtfuldemeanour of the players as they face up to the big task. If theywin, they win in every ...
POKER
Jun 04, 2006; ... I'LL CALL HIM CHET TOWER, so as not to embarrass him. On this day,Chet wasn't quite ready for the poker big leagues - and he had cometo Las Vegas to challenge the best. I was about to take a seat in agame, as was Bobby Baldwin, another world champion. It was shortly after I had ...
PS
Jun 04, 2006; ... PS If, when the BBC's noble motto about nation speaking untonation was devised some 80 years ago, those responsible had intendedto add ''in a vaguely doltish Cockney accent'', would they not havedone so? Yet for some reason the Corporation have long seemed of thebelief that we must ...
Time for Beckham to justify celebrity status England's captain can either emulate Bobby Moore by leading his side to glory or depart the stageremembered as a mere bobby-dazzler
Jun 04, 2006; ... And did those feet, in ancient times, keep cracking in themetatarsal region? I think not. So forget my chariots of fire andjust bring me the decanter. Actually, it was a glass of white wine that got me into thesecircumstances: a second glass, true, to go with the sea-bass ...
How England can win the World Cup
Jun 04, 2006; ... ROUTE ONE Winning Group B Second round Date: Sunday, June 25 (4pm) Venue: Stuttgart Likely opponent (based on world rankings, seedings and recentform): POLAND (Runner-up Group A) If they win their group England will expect to play Poland ....
Eriksson must go out with all guns blazing Germany 2001was his high point and England might have to reproduce that cavalier spirit if their coach is to be remembered fondly, says Roy Collins
Jun 04, 2006; ... Back in August, 2001, Sven-Goran Eriksson suffered his firstBaldrick moment as England manager when he devised a cunning plan touse Jamie Carragher, everyone's idea of the archetypal centre-half,disguised as a midfield holding player. The result, after winning his first five games ...
Bring on Brazil, we've got a score to settle England's captain recalls the pain of defeat in 2002 and tells Roy Collins how he would love to set the record straight in what could be his last World Cup finals
Jun 04, 2006; ... If there is one moment in David Beckham's international careerthat he would love to change, one low point that threatens to haunthim beyond the end of his playing days, it is the instant whenRivaldo scored Brazil's equaliser in the World Cup quarter-final inJapan in 2002 just as the ...
Gary Lineker's Player Guide
Jun 04, 2006; ... Paul Robinson Club: Tottenham Hotspur. Squad number: 1. Position: Goalkeeper. Caps (goals): 20 (0). Age: 26. Robinson is in excellent form and has shown he is a goalkeeper wecan trust He's a brilliant shot-stopper and is a big character offthe field. If ...
THE ROAD TO GERMANY Despite the trauma of a shock defeat in Northern Ireland and a red card for captain David Beckham against Austria, England qualified comfortably by topping their group
Jun 04, 2006; ... Sept 4 2004 Austria 2 England 2 David James (on letting in Austria's equaliser through his hands):"It's cold and lonely out there when you make a mistake like that infront of 50,000 people. The guy hit a half-decent shot, it took halfa deflection and it caught me in an ...