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EVENTS

Professor Stephen Hawking's book, '' A Brief History Of Time '', becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of '' The Sunday Times ''.

November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel '' The Shipping News ''.

1993 is the 30th anniversary of '' The Feminine Mystique '' by Betty Friedan

NEW BOOKS

'''' - Sue Townsend

'' Band Of Brothers '' - Stephen Ambrose

'' Barnyard Dance '' - Sandra Boynton

'' The Christmas Box '' - Richard Paul Evans

'' The Client '' - John Grisham

'' Complicity '' - Iain Banks

'' The Emigrants '' - W.G. Sebald

'' The Eye In The Door '' - Pat Barker

'' The Giver '' - Lois Lowry

'' Honour Among Thieves '' - Jeffrey Archer

'' The Hope '' - Herman Wouk

'' In The Eye Of The Sun '' - Ahdaf Soueif

'' Lasher '' - Anne Rice

'' Like Water For Chocolate '' - Laura Esquivel

'' Losing Eddie '' - Deborah Joy Corey

'' Men At Arms '' - Terry Pratchett

'' Moving Mars '' - Greg Bear

'' Never Send Flowers '' - John Gardner

'' The Night Manager '' - John Le Carré

'' Nightmares And Dreamscapes '' - Stephen King

'''' - Miranda Seymour

'' Pleading Guilty '' - Scott Turow

'' Le Rocher De Tanios '' - Amin Maalouf

'' The Scorpio Illusion '' - Robert Ludlum

'' Shadows Of The Pomegranate Tree '' - Tariq Ali

'' Slow Waltz At Cedar Bend '' - Robert James Waller

'' Too Big To Fail '' - Walter Stewart

'' Trainspotting '' - Irvine Welsh

'''' (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) - Esther Delisle

'' Vanished '' - Danielle Steel

'' Visiting Mrs. Nabokov And Other Excursions '' - Martin Amis

'' The Wicca Spellbook '' - Gerina Dunwich

'' Without Remorse '' - Tom Clancy

DEATHS

January 8 - Eleanor Hibbert , better known as Jean Plaidy and '''Victoria Holt'''

January 22 - Kobo Abe , novelist and playwright

March 9 - C. Northcote Parkinson , historian, codifier of Parkinson's Law

April 15 - Leslie Charteris , creator of "The Saint"

April 23 - Bertus Aafjes , Dutch poet

June 19 - William Golding , novelist and poet

August 28 - E. P. Thompson , political historian

September 7 - Eugen Barbu , novelist, playwright and journalist

September 16 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal , poet

October 31 - Kashif Latif , poet, aged 17

November 25 - Anthony Burgess , novelist

December 4 - Margaret Landon , author of ''Anna and the King of Siam''

December 28 - William L. Shirer , historian

AWARDS

, ''Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha''

See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Red Mars''

, ''Missing May''

, ''Le Rocher de Tanios''

. ''Exobiographie''

, ''Sa femme''

, ''Leviathan''

, ''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches''

, ''A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain''

, ''The Wild Iris''

, ''Theory of War''