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  1. Pastoral in passing

    THE SPELL. By Alan Hollinghurst. 257pp. Chatto and Windus. Pounds 15.99. - 0 7011 6519 7. The subject of Alan Hollinghurst's third novel is nothing less than the gamut of contemporary gay life, from...

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  2. Deep in the forest of Aeros

    THE WORLD AND OTHER PLACES. By Jeanette Winterson. 234pp. Cape. Pounds 14.99. - 0 224 05136 9. In such characteristically intense, lyric novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body...

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  3. Ghost Country

    GHOST COUNTRY. By Sara Paretsky. 386pp. Hamish Hamilton. Pounds 15.99. - 0 241 13263 0. V. I. Warshawski is in temporary retirement, and her creator has taken a break from crime fiction to offer us...

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  4. Paradise, Jamaica

    DUPPY CONQUEROR. By Ferdinand Dennis. 346pp. Flamingo. Pounds 16.99. - 0 00 225596 0. The twentieth century is a foreign place for most contemporary black British writers. The likes of Fred D'Aguiar...

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  5. Upwardly-mobile men out of Wells

    TRESPASS. By D. J. Taylor. 223pp. Duckworth. Pounds 15.99. - 0 7156 2825 9. For my father, with love (and thanks, H. G.)" reads the dedication to this, D. J. Taylor's fourth novel. But even without...

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  6. Raisins in the rising dough

    Predictions is a new mini-paperback series, priced at Pounds 2 each, in Weidenfeld and Nicolson's Phoenix imprint. In dimensions and length (fifty-odd pages apiece) it owes something to Penguin's...

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  7. Brave new world

    TO CONSTITUTE A NATION. A cultural history of Australia's constitution. By Helen Irving. 253pp. Cambridge University Press. Pounds 40. - 0 521 58417 5. THE AUSTRALIAN NATION. Its British and Irish...

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  8. Fair dinkum?

    THE AVENUE OF THE FAIR GO. A group tour of Australian political thought. By Donald Horne. 8pp. Sydney, NSW: HarperCollins. Paperback, Aus$24.94. - 0 7322 5867 7. The Avenue of the Fair Go begins with...

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  9. A not so special relationship

    THE CLASH. US-Japanese relations throughout history. By Walter LaFeber. 508pp. Norton. Pounds 22. - 0 393 03950 1. The binational polls that regularly measure the mood of United States-Japan...

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  10. Driving in all directions

    HIDDEN AGENDAS. By John Pilger. 687pp. Vintage. Paperback, Pounds 8.99. - 0 099 74151 2. We live, according to John Pilger, not in an "information age", but rather in a "media age", in which "the...

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  11. The legacy of war

    PHILOSOPHIES OF INTEGRATION. Immigration and the idea of citizenship in France and Britain. By Adrian Favell. 288pp. Macmillan. Pounds 45. - 0 333 688 5. COLONIAL MIGRANTS AND RACISM. Algerians in...

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  12. John Rawls and Jacques Derrida

    (Photograph) - John Rawls, Harvard, 1990, and Jacques Derrida, Paris, 1990; from Philosophers, photographs by Steve Pyke (168pp. Manchester: Cornerhouse. Paperback, Pounds 13.95. 0 94879 76 2)

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  13. Studs u like

    After years giving voice to the voiceless via radio and lauded oral histories, Studs Terkel tells Huw Richards he still can't work a tape recorder You know," said the elderly black woman he found...

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  14. Withering on the divine

    Steven Weinberg has his own ideas about the origins of the universe and, as he tells Andrew Robinson, they have nothing to do with God Among scientists, the particle physicist and cosmologist Steven...

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  15. Taking on the titans

    Underlying the trust-busting suit against Microsoft is the notion that the high-tech sector is a market different from all others and requires new regulations. Kam Patel reports on the academics...

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