Jane Austen -- D.H. Lawrence's 'The fox' -- Carlyle's house: newly discovered pieces by Virginia Woolf -- On Tolstoy -- The man who loved children -- Kalila and Dimna--the fables of Bidpai -- Speech at Vigo on getting the prince of Asturias prize 2002 -- Censorship -- The forgotten soldier, Guy Sajer -- Preface to Ecclesiastes, King James version -- Writing autobiography -- The amazing victorian: a life of George Meredith -- Bulgakov's The fatal eggs -- 'Now you see her, now you don't' -- Stendhal's Memoirs of an egotist -- Lost civilisations of the stone age -- Henry Handel Richardson -- A reissue of The golden notebook -- Anna Kavan -- Philip Glass -- Trail of feathers -- William Philips, who died in 2002 -- Books -- Niccolo Tucci's Before my time -- The wrong way home -- Biography -- About cats -- The Maimie papers -- Olive Schreiner -- When I was young ... -- Preface fro the Writers' and artists' yearbook 2003 -- Simone de Beauvoir -- My room -- A book that changed me -- The autobiography of an unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Old -- Professor Martens' departure -- How things were -- A Nazi childhood -- Knowing how to know: a practical philosophy in the Sufi tradition -- The tragedy of Zimbabwe -- East meets west: The elephant in the dark -- 'What novel or novels promoted your own political awakening?' -- The most significant book to come out of Africa -- The Sufis -- The ice palace: Frozen secrets stranded in a waterfall -- Problems, myths and stories -- After 9.11 -- The past is myself, Christabel Bielenberg -- The story of Hai -- Sufi philosophy and poetry -- The way -- A week in Heidelberg -- Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto -- For a book trust pamphlet -- The three royal monkeys, Walter de la Mare -- Catlore, Desmond Morris -- The Englishman's handbook -- A.E. Coppard -- A festschrift, Idries Shah -- The nine emotional lives of cats -- Mukiwa: a white boy in Africa -- Clarissa -- Summing up: when Idries Shah died -- Opera.