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The 1997 Booker Prize
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Harold Robbins and Arundhati Roy
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Computers and women
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Hollywood, China and Tibet
Hollywood and Beijing fall out over a number of films about Tibet
Jane Austen - a life of pride and prejudice
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Dario Fo's - The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
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Doris Lessing - out of Africa
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Neil Simon's Proposals - is it his last play?
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The Day of the Jackal
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David Grossman and The Zigzag Kid
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An exhibition of rare Russian treasures goes on show in China
Prof. Roy Porter and a history of disease
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