Description
Sunday Times Magazine September 8th 2009
Did You Know? – Lily Allen’s shock “my career is over” announcement; the first person to die as a result of plane crash; the scoffing schoolboy who wobbled his way into literary history
Relative Values – Bear Grylls, extreme survival expert and Chief Scout, and his big Sister, Lara, tennis coach
Short Story – A young man, unsure what his future holds, seeks reassurance from his grandfather, then discovers that neither has the power to leave the past behind. A nostalgic tale from David Vann
A Life in the Day – Jeffrey Archer, novelist, on being “ruthlessly disciplined”, shepherd’s pie, and not losing the plot
Inside the goldmine – While many financial titans collapsed in the credit crunch, Goldman Sachs came up smelling of trillions. Now they’re doling out huge bonuses while the rest of us are tightening our belts. How does it plead in its defence?
The voice of reason – Success may have come easy to her. But keeping her personal life under wraps has been tough for Norah Jones. Here, she reluctantly drops her guard to talk about her famous father and her private struggles
Trapped in the Twilight zone – The Twilight Saga is the biggest books-to screen phenomenon since Harry Potter. While hungry teens can’t get enough of these vampire love stories, the lead actor Robert Pattinson, has nowhere left to hide
Children of the evolution – He’s gone down in history as the man who formulated the theory of evolution. But a darker side of Charles Darwin is emerging as he’s accused of racism and of inspiring a spate of high-school killings
76 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
