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Language barrier: Our sheer ignorance about how Europe works is worrying
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Language barrier: Our sheer ignorance about how Europe works is worrying

Elizabeth Woodcraft: new book informed by lifelong domestic violence campaign
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Elizabeth Woodcraft: new book informed by lifelong domestic violence campaign

Rock of Ages – the marvellous memoirs of Elton John and Debbie Harry
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Rock of Ages – the marvellous memoirs of Elton John and Debbie Harry

Get your hands on our brilliant Letter To My Younger Self book this week
LTMYS book Letter To My Younger Self
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Get your hands on our brilliant Letter To My Younger Self book this week

Top 5 audiobooks to boost your mental health
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Top 5 audiobooks to boost your mental health

The suspense is over: Big Issue crime-writing winner announced
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The suspense is over: Big Issue crime-writing winner announced

Top 5 books about love that survives war and other duress
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Top 5 books about love that survives war and other duress

Public Libraries – our new report shows urgent need to boost funding
Bird public libraries report Orlando Gili
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Public Libraries – our new report shows urgent need to boost funding

REVIEW: Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi; The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball
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REVIEW: Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi; The Divers’ Game by Jesse Ball

Top 5 books about boys
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Top 5 books about boys

Book Refuge is bringing mini-libraries to London homeless shelters
Book Refuge Joshua Brown
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Book Refuge is bringing mini-libraries to London homeless shelters

Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day
Man looks at books in bookshop
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Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day

The Big Issue’s top 5 books about bookshops
Independent Bookshops Alliance
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The Big Issue’s top 5 books about bookshops

Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity
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Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity

Why books matter to The Big Issue
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Why books matter to The Big Issue

Top 5 books about archaeology
Mike Pitts
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Top 5 books about archaeology

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Constitution Street, Jemma Neville; Rusty Brown, Chris Ware
Illustration by Joe Boyd
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Constitution Street, Jemma Neville; Rusty Brown, Chris Ware

A great vintage: Getting older is rich with opportunity
Illustration by Joseph Joyce
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A great vintage: Getting older is rich with opportunity

Susan Neiman: the Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany
Susan Neiman: author
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Susan Neiman: the Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany

Illustrator Millie Marotta on capturing the endangered little dodo bird
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Illustrator Millie Marotta on capturing the endangered little dodo bird

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