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Sunday Times Magazine July 5th 2009
SHORT STORY – In David Almond’s tale. A woman falls in love with an undertaker and takes drastic measures to relive her wild past
DID YOU KNOW? The first female pilot who flew round the world; the all-star cast of Don McLean’s classic hit American Pie; did Orson Welles plan to make the first Batman movie?
A LIFE IN THE DAY – John Desmond, who runs a tiny restaurant in his fisherman’s cottage on Heir Island off West Cork
RELATIVE VALUES – Anthoney Wright, soul singer, and his grandmother Josephine Jenkins, who raised him from the age of two
OPEN MINDS – Using neuroscience to explain how we function opens a whole can of philosophical worms, says Roger Scruton
ONE YEAR ON – Since failing to win a medal at Beijing, Britain’s wunderkind diver Tom Daley has split from his diving partner and been bullied by his classmates. Now he’s in a new school and limbering up for 2012
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE – Britain’s premier ballet school is refreshingly non-elitist with many underprivileged pupils getting a foot in the door. And they’re kept on their toes with a punishing regime that only the strong survive
A DANGEROUS LOVE – She fell “madly in love” with the man who assassinated Israel’s prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Then she fought to marry him while he was in jail and have his child. Now Larissa Trimbobler tells her story
RUBBISH TIPS – We waste mountains of food each year and our recycling effort is a shambles. Part two of our environment manifesto asks: how can we clean up?
COVER: DON’T LOOK BACK There’s more to the recession than doom and gloom. We meet the people for whom the downturn has been a catalyst for carving out a better life
72 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
