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CLOSELY HELD (3#) -

and some book schmooze -

# The BBC has won a high court battle to prevent the publication of The Balen Report, an internal report into allegations of bias in its news coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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# William Palmer reviews Insomnia by Aamer Hussein, a book of short stories which seem like magical realism from the descriptions given. Author may be Pakistani. [ind]

# Two of the paperbacks
which are briefly noted here:

St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves written by Karen Russell; may have some connection to Florida.

And Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart which is a memoir of his term trying to govern two provinces in southern Iraq.

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