The nouvelle cuisine of the turnover
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH SHORT STORIES. A. S. Byatt, editor. 439pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 19.99. - 0 19 21 4238 0. The short story in English is a well-mapped terrain; the English short...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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. *...