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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. On a Devon Road by Glyn Maxwell

    Whatever thoughts there were for me on a Devon road, nothing knotted them suddenly to one spot like what lay up ahead, flopped and brownish, too much of it for a bird, too much for a fox; one wound...

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  12. "Warrior in Armour, 1860"

    (Photograph) - "Warrior in Armour, 1860" by Felice Beato; from Early Japanese Images by Terry Bennett (168pp. Rutland, VT: Tuttle; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 30. 0 8048 2029 5)

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  13. Five Postcards by Les Murray

    Having run herself up out of plush, the white-cheeked wallaby sits between her haunches like an old-country tailor behind her outstretched last yard, her tail, and hems it with black fingers. *...

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  14. "In Schwabing, 1912"

    "In Schwabing, 1912"; from Gabriele Muenter: The years of expressionism 1903-1920 by Reinhold Heller (184pp. Munich: Prestel; distributed in the UK by Biblios. Pounds 39.95. 3 7913 1866 7)

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  15. Literal truth

    The examiners' hoary dilemma about whether to mark down students who litter their papers with literals could prove especially difficult in one new degree course. De Montfort University, Lincoln is...

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