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

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

Stone Club: The most literal rock tour you'll ever see
Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw
Music

Stone Club: The most literal rock tour you'll ever see

Paul O'Grady: 'I could milk a cow by the time I was seven'
Paul O'Grady spoke to The Big Issue about his love of dogs and mixed feelings on Lily Savage Photo: Kirsty Mattsson
Letter to my Younger Self

Paul O'Grady: 'I could milk a cow by the time I was seven'

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'

How opera is giving a powerful voice to migrants
Natasha Agarwal as Neera and Jamal Andreas as Jai in WNO’s Migrations
Music

How opera is giving a powerful voice to migrants

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'
illustration of female musicians
Music

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

Acting Class by Nick Drnaso review: Misfit drama students and one increasingly erratic teacher
Three silhouettes on stage
Book reviews

Acting Class by Nick Drnaso review: Misfit drama students and one increasingly erratic teacher

Don't Worry Darling: A dystopian take on the American Dream
florence Pugh and Harry Styles in Don't Worry Darling
Film review

Don't Worry Darling: A dystopian take on the American Dream

Top 5 books if you're into Gothic tales, chosen by Lauren Owen
Books

Top 5 books if you're into Gothic tales, chosen by Lauren Owen

Celebrate the Queen with her favourite music, film, TV and more
Queen Elizabeth II at The Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace in 2012.
Queen Elizabeth

Celebrate the Queen with her favourite music, film, TV and more

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place
Mexican border
Book reviews

Solito by Javier Zamora review: A beguiling memoir, effortlessly evocative of time and place

Crimes of the future: Surgery is the new sex in Cronenberg's latest ick-flick
Crimes of the future
film

Crimes of the future: Surgery is the new sex in Cronenberg's latest ick-flick

Meet Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Son of a Critch star and the real boy behind Disney’s new Pinocchio
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth Photo: supplied
TV

Meet Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Son of a Critch star and the real boy behind Disney’s new Pinocchio

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life review: Exploring loneliness when we're more connected than ever
Woman on a balcony
book reviews

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life review: Exploring loneliness when we're more connected than ever

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