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Bananas – An Ephemeral Shooting Star of the 1970s

18th June, 2026

FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE: In Burnt Diaries (Canongate, 1999), the third volume of her memoirs, the novelist Emma Tennant casts her mind back to moving house from Chelsea to Notting Hill, in 1974 a very different place from the millionaires’ enclave it has become today, and how this became intimately bound up with her idea of founding a magazine. ‘There’s something in the air here,’ one of her new neighbours informs her, shortly after she and her young offspring install themselves in Elgin Crescent…

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