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Sunday Times Magazine May 23rd 2010
Daisy Waugh – Unlike her friends, our columnist refuses to get eaten up over food scares. Nor can she resist getting hooked into the “fat, writhing” fare at a fish market
Short Story In 2040, in the wake of the Big Melt, a woman flees her rat-infested home and writes a diary of a world plunged into chaos. A gripping tale from the acclaimed writer Helen Simpson
Relative Values – The film director John Boorman and his son, Charley, actor, adventurer and motorbike fanatic
Chat Room – Amanda Holden witters on about Simon Cowell and being lippy; how Wayne Rooney narrowly missed being a man of the cloth; our philosopher asks: would you want to know your death date?
A Life in the Day – Simon Armitage, poet, on builder’s tea, TV addictions, and his all-consuming passion for verse
COVER STORY: Stitch bitch – His death, at the age of 40, left his family and the fashion world reeling. What pushed Alexander McQueen to the brink? For the first time, his close friends reveal the string of events that led him to take his own life
A call to prayer – There are around 2.4m people in Britain’s fast-growing Muslim community. What is making more and more of us convert? Our writer joins followers at a London mosque to find out
Me Stanley, you Jane – In 1960, Jane Goodall went to Tanzania to start her ground-breaking research on the behaviour of chimps in the wild. Fifty years later, she returns there and talks to Stanley Johnson about her extraordinary journey
Sweden’s naughty nuptials – Wedding fever is gripping Sweden as the heir to the throne, Princess Victoria, is set to marry her personal trainer. Yet family scandals threaten to eclipse her big day
68 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
