Items

• The Novel: Rewound and Remixed

  "This year alone, Chinua Achebe, Jonathan Safran Foer, Siri Huftsvedt and Rupert Thomson have published nonfiction debut"
• Autumn Pick

  "A Nigerian writer describes America as he see it-with no little sharpness."
• Bestsellers

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• Bestsellers

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• The Sunday Times Weekly Guide

  "Dusklands by J. M Coetzee."
• Student Drama Festival

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• Best Sellers

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• Bestsellers

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• Paperbacks

  "A collection of essays on South African Literature."
• Who's Reading Whom

  "Paul Bailey's Memoirs, An Immaculate Mistake, have just been published."
• The slow march of left and right

  "Hope left South Africa for Britain when he was 31, since then he has established a reputation as a poet, children's author and novelist."
• Main Channels Wednesday14 May

  "The Essay. Christopher Hope links Sputnik with rock'n'roll (R)"
• Bright Man in Havana

  "There is the Cinema Patrice Lumumba" and the Britsish Club stil meeting once a month for its lunch of steak and kindeny pie."
• The daddy of them all

  "On a 1960 tour of Africa, Armstrong's All Stars played in Leopoldville in the Congo four days after Patrice Lumumba was assasinated."
• Not playing the game

  "But there is no mention of the CIA's assassination in 1961 of Congo's first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba or the montrouss dictator with whom they replaced him with, Mobutu Sese Seko."
• BBC1

  "9.30 Night Waves. A book about the murder of Patrice Lumumba Reviewed."
• After indignation, what?

  "African Writing Today besides introducing us to writers from all over the continent, introduces many to each other."