The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from September 2006:
Personally speaking Iris Murdoch What I like about the new 'teenagerism'
Sep 03, 2006; ... From 'Woman's Hour', September 25, 1957 I wish I had been a teenager. But when I was that age theconception didn't exist; or if it did, it didn't come my way. So Inever wore my hair in a ponytail, or danced rock 'n' roll until I wasready to drop, or wore drainpipe trousers (not ...
the real new year starts now
Sep 03, 2006; ... I FEEL THAT I KNOW YOU WELL enough to tell you that I spent theMillennium New Year's Eve in Sir Ian McKellen's bed. Now, before youdecry the tabloid turn this august paper is taking, or you have torethink hastily what you know about both Ian and myself, may I justexplain that I was ...
the patron saint of pink cinema In Armistead Maupin's novel 'The Night Listener' - now a film starring Robin Williams - the central character falls victim to an elaborate deception involving an 'abused' child. The author tells Lee Marshall of the true-life hoax that inspired him portrait by murdo macleod
Sep 03, 2006; ... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN HAS COME A LONG way from Raleigh, NorthCarolina. But he has never shaken off that warm Confederate drawl. Ifyou shut your eyes, he sounds like a Southern gent spinning aleisurely yarn. If you open them, he looks quite like one too, withhis bearish moustache and ...
THis man bid $95m for this picasso - BUT WHO IS HE? art There are only a handful of people who can afford to spend that much on a picture. And their identities are as closely guarded as the works they buy. Marc Spiegler plays the art world's favourite guessing game
Sep 03, 2006; ... ON THE EVENING OF MAY 3, A ROUGH-HEWN man in a dark sports coatwalked into Sotheby's New York auction room. He picked up a biddingpaddle at the registration desk and staff seated him near the back ofthe room, in the seats that are considered to be Siberia in the art-world hierarchy. In ...
OLDER AND WIDER The Sentinel HHIII Crank HHHII
Sep 03, 2006; ... If you were President, what qualities would you look for in abodyguard? Strength, presumably. Bulk, perhaps - the current fashionseems to be for bodyguards as meatily substantial as possible, thebetter to get in the way of multiple bullets. Youth would probably bean asset. Likewise ...
OTHER RELEASES This Film is Not Yet Rated HHHII The Wicker Man IIIII Adrift HHIII Terkel in Trouble HHIII Little Man HIIII Lage Raho Munna Bhai HHHHI
Sep 03, 2006; ... This Film is Not Yet Rated (18) The documentarist Kirby Dick here attempts an expos of the MotionPicture Association of America, the clandestine organisation oflatter-day Puritans whose ratings system determines what UScinemagoers can and cannot see. According to Jack Valenti, a ...
Out this week DVD OF THE WEEK
Sep 03, 2006; ... PIERREPOINT HHHII 20th Century Fox, 15, pounds 19.99 Like his father before him, Albert Pierrepoint was a hangman -Britain's last. Clinically and apparently without qualms, hedispatched 608 condemned prisoners between 1933 and 1955, includingNazi war criminals, Timothy Evans ...
DVDs Out this week
Sep 03, 2006; ... spooks, Series 4 HHHHH Contender, pounds 37.50 MI5's staff of four continue to thwart Russian oligarchs andSyrian megalomaniacs with gusto, and a dismayingly high ...
DVDs Out this week
Sep 03, 2006; ... silent hill IIIII Path, 15, pounds 19.99 Based on a computer game, this stereotyped horror movie starsRadha Mitchell and Sean Bean as parents whose somnambulistic ...
DVDs Out this week
Sep 03, 2006; ... ushpizin HHHHI Fox, PG, pounds 19.99 Shuli Rand, the charismatic lead in this 2004 Israeli filmdirected by Giddi Dar, spurned acting for ultra-orthodoxy in ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... PARADIse NOW HHHII Warner, 15, pounds 17.99 Two young Palestinians are chosen to become suicide bombers. HanyAbu-Assad's stylish film records their last night, exploring theircommitment and, cogently, the reasons for it ....
HOW TO PAINT THE INVISIBLE Kerry James Marshall HHHII
Sep 03, 2006; ... Kerry James Marshall, a retrospective of whose work is at theMuseum of Modern Art, Oxford, is one of the leading American artistsof his generation. His pictures, formed from a clever mlange ofstyles and subjects, draw on a wide range of sources from both highand low art. They are quietly ...
COMPLETE RAPTURE SALZBURG Idomeneo HHHII Idomeneo (Strauss version) HHHHH
Sep 03, 2006; ... For the artistically directionless chiefs of the would-be-glittering Salzburg Festival, Mozart's 250th birthday could not havecome a moment too soon. The opportunity to programme all 22 ofMozart's stage works in his birthplace during his anniversary yearwas a godsend - an encyclopedic ...
Out this week
Sep 03, 2006; ... This splendid tribute to the LPO's former trumpeter opens with hisjolly Beckus overture, which the stuffy BBC of the 1940s rejected.The central piece is Symphony No 6 (1967), a disturbing score with aslow movement suddenly disrupted by an episode that owes much to aBerlioz's 'March to ...
DREARY DELUSIONS Balanchine's Don Quixote HIIII
Sep 03, 2006; ... British ballet companies can't really do Don Quixote. The starsshine brightly enough but the ensembles, however multinational thepersonnel, always seem to dance with an English accent and thezestful old ballet has all the sunny, unaffected good humour ofCherie Blair in a party ...
BOMB BLASTS, CARNAGE AND GORE EDinburgH THEATRE Terre Haute HHHHI Long Life HHHII Three Sisters HHHHH
Sep 03, 2006; ... Edmund White's new play, Terre Haute, shown at the Assembly Rooms,is inspired by the correspondence between Gore Vidal, the author andpatrician thorn in the side of the American Establishment, andTimothy McVeigh, the 'Oklahoma Bomber' executed by lethal injectionin 2001 for blowing up a ...
A WIFE'S LAMENT THEATRE Yerma HHHII The Kingfisher HHIII
Sep 03, 2006; ... 'I wish to God I were a woman,' wails Kathryn Hunter in the titlerole of Yerma at the Arcola Theatre in north London. The verypolitically incorrect premise of Lorca's tragedy is that a woman whois without child cannot be a woman. It is a difficult, complicatedand painful issue that is as ...
THE MAGIC OF NOWHERE SPECIAL The Reading Festival HHHHH
Sep 03, 2006; ... For every festival-goer who has mourned the absence of Glastonburythis year, there have been hundreds of other people who have enjoyedthe respite from endless newspaper articles about the Eavis familyand television 'documentaries' about what the cows do for the rest ofthe year. But ...
POP CHOICE
Sep 03, 2006; ... James Morrison, ULU, London (0871 220 0260) Wed. Voice of JamesBlunt, looks of Chris Martin. Bestival, ...
CDs Out this week
Sep 03, 2006; ... Weighed down by big hair, crammed into stilettos and bondagebikini, and holding two crocodiles on a leash, the inner sleeve ofher second solo album finds Beyonc frozen in an image that looks verylike powerlessness. But the music tells a different story. Squeezingthe very best out of star ...
SHE'S GONE OVER THE RAINBOW Desert Island Discs: AA Gill HHHII Desert Island Discs: Dame Joan Plowright HHIII Betjeman Centenary HHHII
Sep 03, 2006; ... It's a pity that Sue Lawley (right) bowed out of Desert IslandDiscs last week with such a regular-issue theatrical steamboat asDame Joan Plowright as guest. Her strandee the previous week, thejournalist A A Gill, was far more interesting, having at least somealarming stories to tell of ...
BLACK ON BLACK Shoot the Messenger HHHHI A New Life: Risking it All HHHII Equator HHHHI Who Downed Douglas Bader? HHIII
Sep 03, 2006; ... It's possible that you might have got to the end of Shoot theMessenger (Wednesday, BBC2) and said to yourself, 'What the hell wasthat all about? I know, let's see if that man with the eerie half-smile on the Sunday Telegraph can enlighten me.' Well, I'll do mybest, but I can't pretend ...
HISTORICAL FICTION allan massie is conquered by a novel that conjures up the splendour and squalor that was rome Imperium BY ROBERT HARRIS HUTCHINSON, pounds 17.99, 342 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Sep 03, 2006; ... 'My name is Tiro. For 36 years I was the confidential secretary ofthe Roman statesman Cicero. At first this was exciting, thenastonishing, then arduous, and finally extremely dangerous. In thedecades after his death, I was often asked, usually in whispers, whatCicero was really like, but ...
fiction can a novel be too close to real life? wonders caroline moore A Spot of Bother BY MARK HADDON JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 17.99, 390 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Sep 03, 2006; ... Mark Haddon's new novel introduces us to a hero who, mostunfashionably, does not believe in the purely therapeutic value oftalking. 'Talking,' in the opinion of George Hall, is 'overrated'.George, who has recently retired after 'thirty-five years on thefringes of the manufacturing ...
Spy fiction this foray into the world of espionage is fresh and full of suspense, finds tibor fischer
Sep 03, 2006; ... Of the literary novelists William Boyd has always been one of themost unliterary: unfussy, straightforward, fond of a good story. Fromhis first novel A Good Man in Africa onwards, Boyd's primary missionhas been to entertain rather than to impress. The story of EvaDelectorskaya, a White ...
american fiction katie owen admires an elegant satire of solipsism in manhattan
Sep 03, 2006; ... Inevitably, 9/11 has become grist to the mill of fiction. RecentlyJay McInerney in The Good Life, and now Claire Messud, in her Booker-longlisted fourth novel, have used the event in order to portray the'state of the nation' - or more specifically the state of theManhattan ...
dystopian fiction david robson on j.g. ballard's latest evocation of life in a suburBan hell
Sep 03, 2006; ... The best thing in Kingdom Come is the opening. A Londonadvertising executive leaves his natural habitat in the West End anddrives out to the suburbs. His destination is a motorway town on theM25: specifically, a vast shopping mall called Metro-Centre, wherehis father has just been ...
chivalry edward smith enjoys a tale of medieval eroticism and multiculturalism
Sep 03, 2006; ... The fall-out from a doomed foreign war, tensions between Churchand State, and strained ethnic and religious relations at home - thethemes of Barry Unsworth's new novel The Ruby in Her Navel arestrikingly modern. But the setting is Sicily in the 12th century, asophisticated community of ...
short stories these stories show enormous subtlety and skill, says christopher tayler
Sep 03, 2006; ... Colm Toibin's beautifully modulated novels often develop inunexpected directions. What starts out appearing to be one kind ofstory turns out to be another and then another kind without givingyou the feeling that a trick is being played; it seems entirelynatural. And the same might be ...
family life in this novel the irritations and betrayals of marriage are Brilliantly skewered, says jenny mccartney
Sep 03, 2006; ... Rachel Cusk's sixth novel is set in a fictional, leafy Englishsuburb in which the men go blithely to work and the women stew indomesticity, simmering their complicated resentments as long andfaithfully as the hotpot on the family Aga. In the course of a singlerainy day, the author ...
short stories these stories show enormous subtlety and skill, says Christopher tayler
Sep 03, 2006; ... Colm Toibin's beautifully modulated novels often develop inunexpected directions. What starts out appearing to be one kind ofstory turns out to be another and then another kind without givingyou the feeling that a trick is being played; it seems entirelynatural. And the same might be ...
LITERARY LIFE
Sep 03, 2006; ... Brenda Maddox, whose previous biographies include Nora: The RealLife of Molly Bloom and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, hasdecided on the subject of her next work: Ernest Jones. For those whohave never heard of him, the Welsh shrink was one of the pioneers ofthe international ...
substance abuse john preston longs for a drink as he wades through roddy doyle's latest
Sep 03, 2006; ... The absence of Roddy Doyle's new novel from the Booker longlisthas caused surprise in some quarters - although not, I suspect, amonganyone who has actually read it. Paula Spencer is a follow-up to his1997 novel, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. The eponymous heroine is a ...
debut this accomplished thriller demands an instant re-read, says matt thorne
Sep 03, 2006; ... The title of Marisha Pessl's dbut novel is also that of the non-fiction book that her two main characters - 16-year-old Blue van Meerand her fabulous historian father, Gareth (a heart-throb capable ofseducing any woman with whom he comes into contact) - are planning towrite together ....
mummy-lit to enjoy this romp, swallow the snobbery and dive in, SAYS MELISSA KATSOULIS Notting Hell BY RACHEL JOHNSON FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 12.99, 336 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Sep 03, 2006; ... Do you shop at Michanicou? Are you wearing Seven jeans? Do youknow who Ivo Dawnay is? If you answered yes to any of these questionsthen you'll feel right at home in the pages of Notting Hell, RachelJohnson's fictional romp through the stylish homes and tangled lovelives of half-a-dozen ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND' BY LEWIS CARROLL
Sep 03, 2006; ... The title of the original hand-lettered book was Alice'sAdventures Under Ground. Charles Dodgson, thinking it a little tooprosaic for the published version, wrote on June 10, 1864 to afriend, Tom Taylor, for advice. He enclosed several possibilities,including Alice Among the Elves, Alice ...
PAPERBACKS
Sep 03, 2006; ... UNTOLD STORIES BY ALAN BENNETT FABER/PROFILE, pounds 9.99Alan Bennett wrote these extended fragments after 1996 when hethought he was going to die. They include some tender anddistressingly sad memories of his Yorkshire parents. Nearly 200 ofhis 627 ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... BAMBOO BY WILLIAM BOYD PENGUIN, pounds 10.99We think of him as a novelist but this fat volume reminds us thathe's also an assiduous hack. Here he resurrects a wide range ofephemera, including, for instance, some autobiographical ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... ARTHUR & GEORGE BY JULIAN BARNES VINTAGE, pounds 7.99Meticulous, impressive, and arguably slightly heavy-going, this isBarnes's re-creation of the background to a famous real-life 19th-century court case. At the height of his fame, Sir Arthur Conan Doyletook on a mission: ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... THE CHAINS OF HEAVEN BY PHILIP MARSDEN HARPER PERENNIAL, pounds 8.99 Philip Marsden first went to Ethiopia when it was under oppressiveCommunist rule. But it was still the uniquely Christian country thatit had always been, with its almost inaccessible ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... A READING DIARY BY ALBERTO MANGUEL CANONGATE, pounds 8.99The erudite Argentinian chose 12 books he'd read or reread in ayear, ranging from Kafka and Ovid to Cervantes and Kenneth Grahame.This is less about the books than about Alberto ...
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Sep 03, 2006; ... EXPLORERS OF THE NEW CENTURY BY MAGNUS MILLS BLOOMSBURY, pounds 7.99 The ex-bus driver shortlisted for the Booker Prize with his firstbook (The Restraint of Beasts, 1998) goes on honing his idiosyncraticcraft, depicting emotionally repressed men engaged in ...
american fiction alastair sooke is gripped by a ghoulish comedy of manners A Disorder Peculiar to the Country BY KEN KALFUS SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 12.99, 256 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Sep 03, 2006; ... Ken Kalfus is a talent to watch. A Disorder Peculiar to theCountry, the American writer's second novel, is a blistering portraitof a New York couple going through a divorce in the aftermath of theattacks on September 11, 2001. Joyce and Marshall hate each other with such profound ...
SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB barry unsworth chooses 'Reading turgenev' by william trevor
Sep 03, 2006; ... There are novels that absorb us while we read them but leavenothing much behind, others that remain with us as a general sense ofpossibilities increased, life enriched. And there are some - muchrarer - that stay with us as a living presence, existing moreintensely than most of what we ...
TURN ON ELIZABETH EMANUEL DRAWS ON NEW TECHNOLOGY
Sep 03, 2006; ... I DO A LOT OF DESIGNING directly onto the computer and, ratherthan using a fairly clumsy mouse, I use a Wacom graphics tablet andpen with Adobe Photoshop. You draw on the tablet as if you weredrawing on paper and it comes up on the screen. It's very precise andlooks good, ...
TAKE FIVE BILL HARRIMAN RUNS AN EXPERT EYE OVER 12-GAUGE SHOTGUNS SPANNING THREE CENTURIES
Sep 03, 2006; ... It's that time of year again _the game-shooting season. Grouse arealready on the menu, the season for duck and partridge began onFriday and from October 1 pheasant will join the list. The first thing I'd say to anyone interested in shooting is, goand have some lessons at a clay ...
ROAD TEST Nissan's 350z was a classic sports car. why mess with a perfect formula, asks neil lyndon
Sep 03, 2006; ... THE LITTLE BOY WHO JEERED WHEN I drove by with the roof down onthe Nissan 350Z roadster - and who shouted a word that begins with'w' and ends in 'r' when I blipped the throttle while changing down agear - had some justice on his side. However, I would like to thinkthat it was the 350Z's ...
POKER
Sep 03, 2006; ... POKER HAS CHANGED, AND it's for the better. Today, professionalsshare the spotlight with celebrities in sports and entertainment. Thepublic treats the best players respectfully. And, more and more, thegame is being populated by young people who became fascinated with itin their ...
BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE Going green will boost developers' profits If you think of eco-friendly houses as rather oddball, think again. Mainstream builders are eager to save the planet - and not just out of the kindness of their hearts. Graham Norwood reports
Sep 03, 2006; ... If you ask Andrew Reason and his girlfriend Carly Stevens why theyopted for St Mary's Island at Chatham, Kent, when they bought theirfirst home together, they'll say it was the environment. That's not"the Environment'' with a capital E, but the environment of peace andquiet compared to ...
New life amid the ruins of a Greek isle House by house, a growing band of Britons are lovingly restoring the glories of Symi. June Field reports on the visitors who stayed
Sep 03, 2006; ... When Mike and Jo Gadd arrived on Symi they planned to spend anight or two. Seven years later, they live in a rebuilt ruin on oneof the most beautiful spots in the Mediterranean. Seduced by theGreek island's beauty, they became part of a growing band ofexpatriates who have never ...
Drawn to the riverside, come hell or or high water Waterside property prices are booming despite a string of recent floods and urgent warnings of record high tides. Caroline McGhie examines why so many homeowners are still willing to take the risk
Sep 03, 2006; ... We are bewitched by water. It has become the property owner'sdream, to live by the tides like limpets on the seashore or to wakeby glassy streams like pastoral shepherds. Every developer andregeneration project seeks out the defunct canals, the dock basinsand the potential marina sites ...
Drawn to the riverside, come hell or or high water Waterside property prices are booming despite a string of recent floods and urgent warnings of record high tides. Caroline McGhie examines why so many homeowners are still willing to take the risk
Sep 03, 2006; ... We are bewitched by water. It has become the property owner'sdream, to live by the tides like limpets on the seashore or to wakeby glassy streams like pastoral shepherds. Every developer andregeneration project seeks out the defunct canals, the dock basinsand the potential marina sites ...
On The Level Is my heating engineer playing power games?
Sep 03, 2006; ... Q. My heating engineer has told me that where a new boiler isfitted, it is a requirement under the Building Regulations that theexisting radiators and pipework are "power flushed'' and that this issubject to enforcement by the local authority. Is this correct? DA, Oxford A ....
On The Level WALL INSULATION
Sep 03, 2006; ... Q. We are all being urged to insulate our cavity walls but I haveheard that this causes damp problems. It seems more logical toinsulate walls on the inside, thus maintaining a clear cavity. Pleasecan you tell me what materials are available on a DIY basis toinsulate the insides of the ...
On The Level ELECTRICAL UPGRADE
Sep 03, 2006; ... Q. My house has a 13-amp ring main with PVC cable connectedthrough a cartridge-type fuse box. On attempting to have a modernconsumer unit installed, I was told by the electrician that thewhole house would have to be rewired. Is this the case? DR, Crawley A. No, there is ...
Side extensions The Room Planner
Sep 03, 2006; ... Side extensions to terrace properties offer much-needed additionalfloor space, but many look like after-thoughts instead of blendingseamlessly with the whole. Living with them and making them work canbe quite a challenge. Most contemporary extensions are designed to maximize the ...
The UK way Come buy with me How far will an estate agent go to sell a property? Dominic Prince is given the chauffeur-driven limousine, yacht and private jet treatment in Mallorca
Sep 03, 2006; ... How do other agents compare when it comes to luxury service? Well,you may not find many offering you trips in eight-berth yachts, butthere are some glitzy inducements on offer.*Property Vision, a buying agency specialising in top-end propertyin the UK and overseas, flies clients ...
Organic gardening
Sep 03, 2006; ... Where can I find out about organic gardening? Garden Organic, formerly known as HDRA, is a good first port ofcall. It provides a fund of information, with more detailed adviceand offers for members - who may be individuals, families or groups,amateur or professional. Membership ...
Heady hydrangeas
Sep 03, 2006; ... No one who has seen it will ever forget Hydrangea Valley at TrebahGardens, near Falmouth, Cornwall. More than two acres of mopheadhydrangeas form a frothing sea of blue and white that flows down tothe river at the garden's southern boundary. Seldom is such intensecolour seen in such a ...
Conran seeks more London hotels
Sep 03, 2006; ... SIR TERENCE CONRAN is on the lookout for more London hotels to buyafter receiving pounds 29m from his company following the profitablesale of the capital's Great Eastern Hotel. Even after the payment to Conran, his private company has repaidits debt and has a cash balance of ...
Bondholders plot to derail GUS demerger Hedge funds press for improved terms in plans to split retail group from credit rating company
Sep 03, 2006; ... GUS faces a showdown this week with hedge funds and otherinvestors hoping to derail its demerger of the Argos and Homebasestores businesses. Holders of the company's bonds plan to ignore a tender offer tobuy in the debt by Tuesday's deadline in the hope the company can beforced ...
Sandler firm fined by FSA
Sep 03, 2006; ... A COMPANY fined pounds 250,000 by the City regulator is chairedby Ron Sandler, who created the price-capped stakeholder pension forthe Government. Sandler was commissioned by ministers to produce a report onencouraging retail saving and designed a suite of low-cost ...
Public sector pension liabilities soar by pounds 50bn
Sep 03, 2006; ... THE TOTAL cost to taxpayers of funding the pensions of civilservants, teachers, judges and other public workers has rocketed bymore than pounds 50bn in just one year, The Sunday Telegraph canreveal. According to new government documents, the combined liabilities ofsix of the ...
Agius plays the diplomat
Sep 03, 2006; ... MARCUS AGIUS plans to use his new role as chairman of Barclays tobuild new bridges between the City and Westminster. In his first interview since becoming chairman-elect of the bank,Agius told The Sunday Telegraph that the perpetual conflict betweenbusiness and government had been ...
Sushi group tries its hand with gadgets
Sep 03, 2006; ... PRIMARY CAPITAL, the private equity firm behind the Yo Sushirestaurant chain, has bought a 50 per cent stake in Tobar Group, thetoy and gadget retailer. The pounds 42m deal will fund a nationwide roll-out of thegroup's Hawkins Bazaar chain, adding 100 outlets to the current ...