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24/12/31. (Farewell Miss Julie Logan. A Wintery Tale by J M Barrie-8pp. Centrefold supplement to the Christmas Number. A long leader column states that this, a story of the supernatural, is the first time the paper has printed a work of fiction by a living author. Complete with the TIMES Newspaper as issued.  £20.00

23/1/66(10pp), 30/1/66(7pp) & 6/2/66(6pp) The Comedians by Graham Greene. Three Extracts-illustrated in 3 issues of The Sunday Times Magazine. Publication date 27/1/66.   £20.00

1/12/68. (Edna O'Brien-Look at Cuba-8pp illus article together
with 2pp extract entitled "S Beckett at 80" by her. P Norman on Wagner-6pp, illus. A Calderon The Victorian Magical Mystery Tour with poem by G R Sims-Billy’s Rose to go with one of these magic lantern shows, etc.)  £6.00

14/2/71. (Interview with A S Neill, founder of the Progressive School, Summerhill.)  £6.00

9/1/72. A Clockwork Orange - Kubrick’s futuristic fantasy of Burgess’s book previewed by M McCooey, 2pp illus. A Man for all Seasons-a profile of John Arlott by N Haris-4pp illus.  £6.00

27/2/72. (Arthur Hailey "Millionaire" interviewed by George Perry-Illus.)   £6.00

9/4/72. (The Greenwich of Wren, Jones, Hawksmoor, Web & Stuart by K Downes-10pp, illus.)   £6.00

7/5/72. The Schweitzer Cult, an examination of Schweitzer's Role in Africa by R West, 5pp illus.)   £6.00

14/5/72. (The Unofficial History of the 20th Century-How Big Business
put Mussolini on Top by Ireland 1939 by E Norman; R Conquest on Stalin's Purges; Goering's secret trip to London; An attempt to buy off Hitler; Asa Briggs BBC flirts with advertising.)   £6.00

24/9/72. (P Allderidge on Richard Dadd - illus.)   £6.00

19/11/72. (War & Peace & the Tolstoys by D Magarshack-12pp, illus.
J Jackson meets Pablo Casals. Paintings that Outraged the Public by I Dunlop, etc.)   £6.00

29/4/73. (Women against the System (Simon De Beauvoir, Delphine Seyrig, Melina Mercouri, Mguyen Thi Bink, Anne Wicizemsky)
interviewed by Mo Teitelbaum,10pp, illus.)  £6.00

20/5/73. (Wartime romances: neo-Romanticism in the English art of the Forties, (J Minton, P Nash, J Craxton, H Moore, K Vaughan, J Piper, G Sutherland, M Ayrton, Leslie Hurru & R MacBryde-10pp illus by W Feaver. R P Jhabvala on the ostracised lepers of India-11pp, illus, etc.)   £6.00

10/6/73. (A Revolutionary Love Affair by C Adam, Rosa Levine & Eugen Levine, 6pp illus.)   £6.00

14/10/73. (Gatsby Revisited by M McCooey-13pp illus of the film;
T Holt, poet, by J McKenzie; The New British Realists, R Gale, D Inshaw, D Hepher, J Baum by E Lucie-Smith, 5pp illus; Koestler in Wonderland by N Moss, etc.)  £6.00

21/10/73. (Mr Trout meets his Waterloo-extract from P G Wodehouse's latest novel Bachelors Anonymous, pre-publication, 8pp, illustrated by N Bentley. Whose Doodle:- Dylan Thomas, E M Forster, Lewis Carroll, W M Thackeray, E Waugh, G Manley Hopkins, J Joyce; Huxley's Boswell; S Bedford talks to Mark Amory. 2pp.)   £15.00

2/12/73. (Charles Spencer on Leon Bakst-9pp, illus, etc.)  £6.00

9/12/73. (Britain & the Black GIs by C Thorne-5pp illus; Echoes of the Australian gold book by B Cater-9pp illus by Snowdon.)  £6.00

3/2/74. (William Feaver on the techniques & influence of Lucien Freud, 8pp profusely illustrated. J Rees on V Woolf & the Bloomsbury set; K Amis & E J Howard talk to P Peters. Last Hours of an Israeli bunker by P Eddy, illus.)   £10.00

1/4/74. 7/4/74. 13/10/74. 19/7/81 Containing articles on Picasso by R Penrose, W Feaver, N Adams, D Duncan.)  £10.00

16/7/ 72. 12/5/74. 19/5/74. 12/2/84. V S Naipaul in 4 issues:- on Mauritius-4pp; The Life & Trials of Michael X,12pp; The Killings in Trinidad, 11pp; Heavey Mamma in Grenada-8pp, all illustrated.   £24.00

26/5/74. (Maxfield Parrish-Commercial artist & superstar of illustration by Robert Melville, 10pp illus.)  £6.00

18/8/74. (Alien at Amblesie. Kurt Schwitters by W Feaver. 7pp illus.)   £6.00

20/10/74. (C Chaplin-My Life in Pictures, 10pp illus. with a Programme advertising,”A Countess From Hong Kong” containing a note by Chaplin on the film history of his work.)   £10.00

10 & 17 Nov 1974. (W Feaver & L Gowing on Turner's paintings, 12pp,
both profusely illus.)  £6.00

24/11/74. (John Osborne looks back without anger- Interview with Mark Amory-illus-3pp.)  £8.00

1/12/74. (Konrad Lorenz talks to Bruce Chatwin- 10pp. First eye on Antarctica-a look at some early photographs by Herbert Ponting-
official photographer on Scott’s last voyage-9pp illus.)   £6.00

16/3/75. (S Spender-Auden Remembered. A Selection of Memoirs & two reminiscences by his elder brother & his teacher at Prep school-10pp illus.)   £10.00

4/5/75. 11/5/75. 18/5/75. 25/5/75. 1/6/75. 8/6/75.  (The Sicilian Specialist, in 6 parts, pre book publication by Norman Lewis.  The death of Phnom Penh-5pp illus. Lesley Garner on Shirley Temple, 4pp illus. Claude Monet’s Garden at Giverny-10pp iilus by Anthony White.
The Day of the Locust-N West’s Hollywood Nightmare-report by V Wade-2pp. W Feaver on The World & Painting of David Jones-7pp,illus. etc.) 6 issues in original wraps. £30.00

5/10/75. (The Ferocious Reticence of Georgette Heyer by A S Byatt-8pp, illus, etc.)   £8.00

26/10/75. (The defiance of John Braine-illus; with 2 articles from The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 15/12/76, Trauma in a Tea Cup & 5/6/77 "My Sunday", both illus.   £8.00

2/11/75. (G Vidal on Four Generations of the Adamses of Boston-15pp, illus.)   £6.00

9/11/75. (V S Pritchett on The Vanderbilts with As Old as the Century-25pp illus.etc.)   £6.00

14/12/75. (The Eyes of the Peacock- a 4pp story by Angus Wilson, illus)   £6.00

20/6/76. (The Essential Angela Brazil by G Freeman-3pp illus.)  £6.00

14/3/76. (Through the Eyes of the Brontes by Brian Wills-8pp, illus.
The Opening of the National Theatre by M Amory-2pp.)  £6.00

10/10/76. (The Richest Animal in the Business. Winnie the Pooh at 50, 2pp. Illustrated. )   £6.00

17/10/76. (How Wiliiam Caxton spread theWord.
Face to Face with Brontes by M Butterfiled-5pp,illus, etc.)   £6.00

7/11/76. (R Campion-Just William 3pp illus; William Walton by Russell Harty.)  £6.00

21/11/76. (Charles Spencelayh, 8pp illus article by B Bernard;
The Unofficial War Art of J Boswell by D Steen- 2pp illus;
Alfred Atkinson-photographer- 2pp illus article by G Perry.)  £6.00

22/2/77. (Profile of Alan Ackborn by R Miller-4pp, illus.
The Joys of Ageing based on the advice of A Comfort-5pp. etc.)   £6.00

17/4/77. (The Ballroom Communist-Jessica Mitford on her recollections about the Mitford Children, prepublication. 2pp; with Black Eloquence, in which she talks to new black American women writers Maya Angelou & Alice Walker, taken from Sunday Times Magazine 20/5/85.)   £6.00

29/5/77. (A Comfort: Comfort for a New Cause 1pp article pre book publication.)   £6.00

16/10/77. The Theatre Critics. Report of a meeting of the newly formed 1st Battalion British Playwrights Mafia. John Osborne’s latest ”play”-a one-act assault on critics-the cast include R Wesker, B Bryden, C Hampton, J Arden, Alan Bennett, R Bolt, E Bond, P Hall, etc. 6pp. A Burgess-My Seven Wonders of the World, 6pp illus.  £8.00

30/10/77. (Steve Berkoff-2pp. A Day in the Life of Hugh Casson, etc.)   £6.00

29/1/78. (Surrealist Survivors. Four Revolutionaries of their Time by Francis Wyndham- L Aragon, A Masson, M Leiris, P Naville. 8pp illus.)   £6.00

27/8/78. (Margaret Forster on Iris Murdoch. illus.)  £6.00

3/9/78. (C Logue on the poetry of E Jervase Thribb with a selection of Thribb’s verse.)   £7.00

10/9/78. (Alice in Skye by Celia Haddon, 4pp illus-extracts from her diary. 4pp, illus, etc.)   £6.00

17/9/78. (The Sunnyside Mystery. Conan Doyle's Father-by Michael Baker, 6pp illus.)   £6.00

22/10/78. (J Symons apreciates Spender with a check list of Spender's paper backs.)  £6.00

29/3/81. (The Beatles-The True Story-part 1 of Philip Norman’s definite biography- 11pp illustrated.)   £6.00

10/8/81. (Fairground Art by G Weedon-8pp, illus.
Nadime Gordimer-Prophet of the Black Revolution by Jan Taylor-3pp, etc.)   £6.00

29/11/81 Women, broads & Booze-1pp by Julian Symons on The Selected Letters from R Chandler together with "Farewell My Lovely"-extract from F MacShane's Life of Chandler.1.5 pp (23/5/76); The Big Spiel. Letters from R Chandler 2pp Sunday Times Weekend Review. (22/11/81: ) £7.00

14/2/82. (Author, Author! R Sutcliff, M Bradbury, R Lehmann, J Betjeman, V S Pitchett, L Van Der Post, L Lee, A Burgess, B Bainbridge & L Gerfield-all nominated “Best of British”. Aricle by Ian Jack. Group photograph by Snowdon. 2pp.)   £6.00

25/7/82. (A Life in the Day of Roald Dahl 1pp.)  £6.00

15/5/83. (N Lewis-The Tribe that Crucified Christ-14pp illus)   £6.00

3/7/83. (Tom Sharpe talks to Derek Hall.)  £6.00

23/10/83. (Bully For You, Harry Flashman! Melvyn Bragg meets G MacDonald Fraser.)  £6.00

4/12/83. (A Burgess-The Greatest Story ever painted-10pp illus.)  £6.00

22/1/84. A Day I the Life of J Luis Barges-1pp illus.)   £6.00

1/4/84. (Sean & Julie O'Faolain: Relative Values-Father & daughter writers discuss each other) Original wraps frayed.  £6.00

11/11/84. (Everybody needs a bit of Nonsense. A Life in the Day of Rumer Godden.)   £6.00

18/11/84. (A Profile of Alan Bennett by Stephen Fay.)  £6.00

9/12/84. (James Fenton & R O’Hanlon set out to find the hairy rhinoceros-by R O’Hanlon-6pp illus.)   £6.00

8/5/77. 23 & 30/12/84. 18/1/87. ( 4 articles by Paul Theroux :- on Henry James, 1pp; on the filming of his novel, The Mosquito Coast in the jungle of Belize; The Shortest Day of the Year.A Christmas Fantasy in 2 Parts.)  £20.00

23/2/86 . (I Dinesen:An African Dream Reaches the Screen. Crisis in Cornwall by B Jackman, 7pp illus.)  £6.00

9/3/86. (Ritual Blessings-Article by Laurie Lee & his daughter
with cutting "Confessions of a Cider Man" from The Sunday Times, 18/2/86.)   £6.00

1/6/86. (N Lewis-Six Hours of High Adventure.)  £6.00

1/3/87. (On Being British by A Burgess-3pp. The British Genius-D Hockney, Tony Hancock, H Pinter, S Hawking, A Guinness, R Attenborough, F Bacon, etc.)  £6.00

22/3/87. (Portrait of the Author as Gunman-W Burroughs tests his firepower- 7pp illus article by J Fox. Leila through the Looking Glass-photographic finds of Lewis Carroll's work.)  £6.00

5/7/87. (Hunting for Henry's Otter, 6pp. Photographs by K Rieppel
Report on Henry Williamson's Devon Countryside ten years after his death.)  £6.00

12/7/87. (The End of the Affair . B Appleyard on Graham Greene-3pp illus.)  £6.00

27/9/87. (What they did to Oscar-extract from R Ellmann’s biography. etc.)   £6.00

22/1/89. (F Raphael visits Corsica.
Thora Hird & her daughter talk to Joy Nelson-2pp illus.)   £6.00

17/9/89 (Ian McEwan & his father talk to Ann McFerran-3pp.
The Paintings of the Prince of Wales- 8pp, etc.)  £6.00

21/6/92. (Truman Capote Revealed: How a literary genius hoaxed the World by P Gillman.)   £6.00

12/7/92. The Real Miss Jean Brodie-extract from "Curriculum VitaeSpark" prepublication of her autobiography in The Sunday Times Books. £8.00

7/2/93. (The Last Hostage by Salaman Rushdie-5pp. Together with The Secret Life of Salman Rushdie by A McElvoy). £6.00

30/10/93. (J Le Carre-Bad Samaritans-3pp; B Bainbridge on Travelling Tales, etc.)   £7.00

1/1/94. (With exclusive access to his private archives Christopher Hawtree reveals the writings of a literary mind."  4pp illus article on G Greene in Sunday Times Magazine.)   £6.00

27/2/94. (The True Story of C S Lewis & Shadowlands by H Varpenter,
whose father was the Bishop who refused to bless the union. 2pp illus.)  £6.00

16/4/94. (Playboy of the West End World. Alan Franks meets T Stoppard, 3pp.)  £6.00

23/2/95. Dewent May meets Hilary Mantel; My First Penguin paperback by J Trollope, W Boyd, J G Ballard, F Weldon, A Motion,
J Barnes, Jilly Cooper, A S Byatt, etc. in The Times Penguin Festival of Fiction- 60 years of Penguin Books. £6.00

9/7/95. (H Pinter gives an interview with Kate Saunders. 2pp illus
with cover cartoon of Pinter by G Scarfe.)   £6.00

29/7/95. (G Daws interviews Japanese POWS-4pp illus. L Lee becries the inroads made on the village life he described-4pp illus, etc.)  £6.00

30/7/95. J Carey on George Eliot's Love-life; M Booth discovers that Sinbad the Sailor was a eunuch; RF Raphael on A Malraux; A Brownjohn, etc. £6.00

6/8/95. Ralph Steadman illustrates Orwell's Animal Farm;
in the Suday Times Culture. £8.00

20/1/96. (Vivien Greene tells about life with & without her husband, G Greene-5pp illus.)   £6.00

20/4/96. (Bachelor of Arts-Matthew Parris meets Ian McKellen. David Starkey-The Death of England. Nation’s State. Actor’s portrait on front wrap.)   £6.00

27/7/97. (R Dahl-Big Friendly Giant. His daughter recalls her father
whilst R Steadman provides the illustrations.)   £8.00

13/6/98. (M Spark on Old Flames & Family Feuds- 4pp interview with Alan Franks-illus.)   £6.00

20/6/98, 19/9/98. 26/9/98. (3 prepublication extracts from A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe. 11, 9 & 7pp prepublication)in The Sunday Times Books.   £17.50

10/10/99. (F Forsyth-A Spectre Calls, 2pp illus with 5pp article on Forsyth by G Howell. Desmond Morris interviewed, etc.)   £6.00

7/11/99 The Bond Issue with articles on his films & an original Bond story by Fleming.)   £25.00

26/4.00. (J Cornwell on Genius & Depression, 5pp, illus. P Theroux on a Coastal Tour of Brazil. Norris McWhirter-co-founder of Guinness Book of Records, interviewed.)   £6.00.

14/3/03 Stancliffe's Hotel -previously unpublished novella by Charlotte Bronte.)£6.00

3/7/03. (Arthur Miller-A Moral Vision for Israel. 2pp illustrated article.) £6.00

21/9/03. (G Scarfe targets the rich & famous-7pp ilus. The Dreams & Dramas in the life of the film director James Ivory-6pp illus.)   £7.00

28/9/03. (Arthur Miller tells his tale, 6pp interview with Ariel Leve, Illus. A Day in the Life of Yann Martel, etc.) £6.00

16/17 Feb 2004. (Rest Stop- a new story by Stephen King in 2 issues.)£10.00

SUNDAY TIMES REVIEW.

16/3/80. (J Mortimer interviews G Greene.)   £6.00

23/11/80. ( “Why Graham Greene didn’t win a Novel prize & Solzhenitsyn did”1.5 pages. )   £6.00

24/1/82. (M Drabble reviews “Simone De Beauvoir by C Aschen. With M Drabble’s report on the fight against Elephant & Rhino poachers in Zambia for the World Wildlife Fund, in The OBSERVER SUPPLEMENT 20 Dec. )   £6.00

31/1/82. (“I Accuse” by G Greene. Full page article.)  £7.00

9/5/82. (“J’Accuse” by G Greene. Full page article.)  £7.00

1/4/84. (Article & interview with G Greene by Norman Lebrecht discussing a found lost novel & G Greene's preoccupations, 2pp.)   £6.00

2/4/89. 9/4/89.Graham Greene. Two parts from Graham Greene. The Authorised Biography by Norman Sherry. Pre book publication.  £6.00

3/11/90. S Spender onthe road with L Bernstein.,2+pp.A beginner's guide to burgessing by F MacCarthy; G Tindall, R Nye, etc. in The Times Saturday Review. £6.00

4/4/91 (Graham Greene’s Obituary by S Tait & J Phillips.)  £6.00

3^rd & 10^th July 1994. (The Power of Sin & The Agony of Love by Norman Sherry. The Definitive Story of G Greene & His Lover, Catherine Walston.) 2pp articles from The Sunday Times News Review.  £6.00

1/2/98. John Carey on Art in the Dock(Joyce) in The Sunday Times Books. £6.00

21/6/98. Summer Reading with comments by D Hockney, M Spark, S Faulks, D Lodge, S Townsend, R Fiennes, D Lodge, J Carey, P D James, W Trevor, R Rendell, A S Byatt, J Fowles, J Barnes, A Fraser, J G Ballard, Craig Raine, H Mantel, W Boyd, etc. in The Sunday Times Books. £7.00

18/10/98. (Reach for the Sky by J G Ballard; J Carey, P R Read, T Huges-The Offers-poem; R Rendell on Pat Barker; in The Sunday Times Books. £10.00

12/6/11. (Mervyn Peake) A Legend Awakes. M Gilmore completes the 4 th Gormenghast novel-6pp illustrated. & TITUS AWAKES-M Gilmore draws on Peakes' own walking nightmare. 3pp Illustrated. £8.00

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