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books of the week
July-September 2003
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28 September 2003
Max Franklin The Dark
the lights are going out all over Europe with Italy being the latest country to suffer a power-cut
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24 September 2003
John Gill Hype
despite all the publicity, Madonna's children's book has disasterously sold just 8000 copies in Britain - ha ha ha
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12 September 2003
Christopher S Wren Winners Got Scars Too
in memory of the great Johnny Cash, who died today in Nashville
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11 September 2003
Paul Bryers Hollow Target
a terrorist novel to mark the anniversary of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center
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4 September 2003
William Haggard The Doubtful Disciple
as the Hutton 'Enquiry' comes to the end of its first phase, here's a book about another British scientist researching biological weapons
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29 August 2003
Tony Van Den Bergh The Padded Ring
we say goodbye to wrestling commentator Kent Walton, who died on 24 August 2003 at the age of 86 - have a good week till next week
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28 August 2003
Martin Luther King, Jr Why We Can't Wait
40 years on from Dr King's dream
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21 August 2003
Michael Hardwicke Prisoner of the Devil
an ironic comment on island dwelling
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16 August 2003
Alan Coren Further Bulletins of Idi Amin
completing a good week for dead fascists, we celebrate the death of Amin
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13 August 2003
Gillian Freeman Nazi Lady
Diana Mosley is dead - hurrah!
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8 August 2003
James Robert Baker Tim & Pete
the South African government today announced it was at last going to take Aids/HIV seriously
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1 August 2003
George Moor The Pole and Whistle
July was a dry month in my calendar, but today I'm allowed to have a drink again
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20 July 2003
James Leo Herlihy Midnight Cowboy
mourning the death today of John Schlesinger, director of Midnight Cowboy
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20 July 2003
Howard Lee Kung Fu
to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Bruce Lee
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17 July 2003
Trevor Hoyle Blake's 7
the US occupying forces in Iraq admitted today that those opposing them are not terrorists but guerrillas
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10 July 2003
Arthur Wise Who Killed Enoch Powell?
it's the 35th anniversary of the passing of the Race Relations Act that outlawed discrimination in housing and employment (but left the police to their own devices)
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4 July 2003
Devlin, Emerich & Molstad Independence Day
British citizens to be tried by illegal American military tribunals, whilst our government does nothing about it? So much for our independence then
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2 July 2003
Pamela Kettle The Day of the Women
on the 75th anniversary of women getting the vote in Britain
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