Mail on Sunday magazine
March 1989
This is the story of an American romance, of a man and a woman alone in this crazy world with only their dreams and a standard set of surgical tools to inspire them, and of how they found happiness in their own special way.
The man is Dr Harvey Austin – tall, [...]
Mail on Sunday magazine
February 1989
Grundy is a small colourless town in the bleak backwoods of Virginia down by the border with Tennessee, a poor town where most of the men have “black lung” from working down the coal mine and almost everybody is just about everybody else’s cousin. There was a murder here, seven years [...]
Mail on Sunday magazine
January 1989.
It was a sleepy Sunday in Kalamazoo. Louise Welling and her grandson had been to church and had just popped into the grocery store to buy a few things for lunch, and they were standing at the checkout, minding their own business, when they saw Elvis Presley. The King of Rock [...]
The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion
January 2 1989
There are these three businessman – according to a joke that is currently working its way round Washington – one French, one Japanese and one American. They are about to be killed by some kind of terrorist who grants them a last wish. The Frenchman says he [...]
