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How to save your library – a step-by-step guide
Books

How to save your library – a step-by-step guide

Review: Emmanuel Carrère's The Kingdom / Gwendoline Riley's First Love
Books

Review: Emmanuel Carrère's The Kingdom / Gwendoline Riley's First Love

Meredith Wadman: The 1960s abortion still protecting millions from disease
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Meredith Wadman: The 1960s abortion still protecting millions from disease

Exclusive: The Big Issue art special guest edited by Charming Baker
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Exclusive: The Big Issue art special guest edited by Charming Baker

TOP 5 Sci-fi novels for Deep Thinkers, chosen by Jaroslav Kalfar
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TOP 5 Sci-fi novels for Deep Thinkers, chosen by Jaroslav Kalfar

Review: Bandi's The Accusation / Affinity Konar's Mischling
Books

Review: Bandi's The Accusation / Affinity Konar's Mischling

David Keenan: The discovery of a musical counterculture set me up for life
Books

David Keenan: The discovery of a musical counterculture set me up for life

Werner Herzog: "Everything I have done is wonderful"
Film

Werner Herzog: "Everything I have done is wonderful"

Bernard Cornwell: "Television should not be novelists’ ultimate goal"
TV

Bernard Cornwell: "Television should not be novelists’ ultimate goal"

Government launches £3.9 million library Innovation Fund – but is it a "sop"?
Books

Government launches £3.9 million library Innovation Fund – but is it a "sop"?

Adam Curtis: "The Colonel Gaddafi story could be a musical"
Culture

Adam Curtis: "The Colonel Gaddafi story could be a musical"

Arrival and the cosmic truth of language
Film

Arrival and the cosmic truth of language

No shaggy dog story: Pets as Therapy help school children with literacy
Books

No shaggy dog story: Pets as Therapy help school children with literacy

Michael Keaton: "Immigration is an integral part of the American dream"
Film

Michael Keaton: "Immigration is an integral part of the American dream"

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens: Beauty, the Beast and why books matter
Books

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens: Beauty, the Beast and why books matter

Sleaford Mods: "People hate us, don't they?"
Music

Sleaford Mods: "People hate us, don't they?"

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Harry Hill: What Bruce Forsyth taught me...
TV

Harry Hill: What Bruce Forsyth taught me...

Love letter saves Liverpool libraries from closure
Library bookcases
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Love letter saves Liverpool libraries from closure

Gurinder Chadha: "Getting my stories out there... It hasn't been easy"
Film

Gurinder Chadha: "Getting my stories out there... It hasn't been easy"

Ralf Little: "I’m starting to have this feeling I might never be a father"
TV

Ralf Little: "I’m starting to have this feeling I might never be a father"

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