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Was JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit a historical novel?
The Hobbit illustration
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Was JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit a historical novel?

Katyń: The forgotten massacre of World War II
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Books

Katyń: The forgotten massacre of World War II

Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness? review: A manifesto that all new queer art should follow
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Whatever Happened to Queer Happiness? review: A manifesto that all new queer art should follow

Top 5 children's books about fashion accessories, chosen by Anthony Moss
fashionable kids
Top 5 books

Top 5 children's books about fashion accessories, chosen by Anthony Moss

Top 5 picture books with intergenerational relationships, chosen by Patrice Lawrence
Grandparent and grandchild at the seaside
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Top 5 picture books with intergenerational relationships, chosen by Patrice Lawrence

Top 5 books about the prison system, chosen by Andy West
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Top 5 books about the prison system, chosen by Andy West

Top 5 books about dogs, chosen by Jules Howard
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Top 5 books about dogs, chosen by Jules Howard

Top 5 books about twins, chosen by LV Matthews
Twin girls with their dad
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Top 5 books about twins, chosen by LV Matthews

Top 5 books on the Cuban revolution, chosen by Christopher Othen
Che Guevara graffiti
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Top 5 books on the Cuban revolution, chosen by Christopher Othen

Top 5 books about cocktails and spirits, chosen by Camper English
Cocktails on a bar
Top 5 books

Top 5 books about cocktails and spirits, chosen by Camper English

JB Mylet: A dark history of orphanages and a mother's childhood secret
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Books

JB Mylet: A dark history of orphanages and a mother's childhood secret

Top 5 crime books of 2022, chosen by Mark Edwards
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Top 5 crime books of 2022, chosen by Mark Edwards

A Prayer For the Crown-Shy review: 'Hopepunk' novel imagines a positive future for humanity
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Book reviews

A Prayer For the Crown-Shy review: 'Hopepunk' novel imagines a positive future for humanity

The secret Nazi camps of Finnish Lapland
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Books

The secret Nazi camps of Finnish Lapland

Richard Osman: ‘The Bullet That Missed isn’t the end for the Thursday Murder Club’
Richard Osman, author of The Bullet That Missed
Books

Richard Osman: ‘The Bullet That Missed isn’t the end for the Thursday Murder Club’

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'
A refugee boat
Book reviews

What Strange Paradise review: A nine-year-old refugee's 'upturned fairytale'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Think you could lead a country? Here's a guide to creating your own micronation
Seasteading floating homes are a possibility for a micronation
Books

Think you could lead a country? Here's a guide to creating your own micronation

Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams
Illustration of Peru
Books

Iain Sinclair on The Gold Machine: Drunken priests and fever dreams

Top 5 books on secret statecraft, chosen by Rory Cormac
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Top 5 books

Top 5 books on secret statecraft, chosen by Rory Cormac

Sinead Gleeson interview: 'Music has often been regarded as men's work'
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Music

Sinead Gleeson interview: 'Music has often been regarded as men's work'

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