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Reading Round the World "The notion that creative writers should not commit themselves politically in their works but should entertain their readers with beautifully wrought but "harmless" yarns and instruct them generally about human nature by drawing complex character studies of a lot or questing souls, is taking a severe drubbing in recent West African." -
Pick of the Paperbacks "THERE WAS A COUNTRY A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe" -
Paper-backs: Fiction [Full Text]: "Fiction: Alain-Fournier: The Wanderer. Translated by Lowell Bair. (Signet. 60p.) Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita. The White Guard. Translated by Michael Glenny. (Fontana. 40p each.) Alexandre Dumas: Camille. (Signet. 45p.) George Eliot: Middlemarch. Edited by Robert Speaight. (Pan. 45p.) Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews. Edited by James Gordon. (Pan. 35p.) Gustave Flaubert: The Sentimental Education. Translated by Perdita Burlingame. (Signet. 70p.) James Hilton: Lost Horizon. (Pan. 30p.) Nick McCarty and Jack Gerson: The Regiment. (Pan. 30p.) Nkem Nwankwo: Danda. (Fontana. 30p.) Gabriel Okara: The Voice. (Fontana. 30p.) Adaora Lily Ulasi: Many Thing You No Understand. (Fontana. 35p.)" -
Monday "Radio: The Monday Play: Anthills of the Savannah." -
Focus on an Annual War of Words "The six titles on this year's Booker shortlist are Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe, Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd, Circles of Defeat by Nina Bawden, Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore, and The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch." -
Critics' Choice "The South Bank Show, which (in a sprawling two-parter) draws on the many parallels between Adichie and Achebe, the multi-award-winning author of Things Fall Apart." -
Butler Didn't Do It "Clearly the splash event of the week and of the literary season is the Booker prizegiving." -
Best Sellers "Best Sellers" -
Aiming High "In 1996, in a small Nigerian town, four brothers, aged 9 to 15, defy their absent father by secretly fishing in a polluted, forbidden river." -
A Love No Storm Could Break "Virginia was the most remarkable human being I have ever known." -
Dead poet's society "Had Roy Campbell known of the famous poet, Tristram Abberley, who left his bones in a hospital during the Spanish civil war," -
Radio "3:30 Commonwealth Stories. Short Tales by Sefi Atta, Anu Kumar, and Julianne Okot Bitek" -
Triumph of a one-man truth commission "He is a prophet without honour in his own land." -
An astonishing first novel "Patricia Finney was 17 when she wrote A Shadow of Gulls." -
On the edge of the Empire "Mr. Coetzee whose third novel this is, is an Afrikaner, though the book was obviously written in English." -
A harsh voice crying in the wilderness "His narratives are tight, hard, adventure stories, dramatically alive, told in a quick urgent voice." -
Novels of the year wait for judgment "There's a long now for the short-listed Booker candidates and another hard think for the candidates." -
The magical historical shortlist "History and magic are the themes of the Booker shortlist which is among the most resolutely in all the 15 years since the prize was founded." -
Taking in the view from the dark verandah "People have a right to misgovern themselves, - that was and is the unanswerable anti-colonial argument." -
Literary quiz "Being an editor is rather addictive, even when the publication is quite modest. -
Bestsellers "Figures in brackets give last week's position; final figures indicate number of previous appearances in listings." -
Bestsellers "Figures in brackets give last week's position; final figures indicate number of previous appearances in listings." -
The Sunday Times Weekly Guide "Dusklands by J. M Coetzee."
