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Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll
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Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll

Planer has enjoyed a long, successful career doing something he absolutely loves
After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux
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After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux

Jews and Muslims’ connected history goes beyond Gaza. It’s a story that needs to be told right now
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Jews and Muslims’ connected history goes beyond Gaza. It’s a story that needs to be told right now

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Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  
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Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  

Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination
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Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll
Book review

Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer review: highly entertaining and endearingly droll

After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux
Book review

After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace by Robert Polito book review: history in flux

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward book review: slow-burn thriller with a nerve-shredding finale
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Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward book review: slow-burn thriller with a nerve-shredding finale

Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination
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Crux by Gabriel Tallent book review: feats of wild imagination

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Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  
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Top 5 books about returning home, selected by Susannah Dickey  

Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan
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Top 5 romantasy reads, chosen by author Clíodhna O’Sullivan

Top 5 magical books for kids, chosen by teacher-turned-author Paula Harrison
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Top 5 magical books for kids, chosen by teacher-turned-author Paula Harrison

Top 5 books about Charles Dickens, chosen by lecturer and author Annie Elliot
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Top 5 books about Charles Dickens, chosen by lecturer and author Annie Elliot

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My plan for the future is to die on a weekend
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My plan for the future is to die on a weekend

When I write stories I can try on different voices. It’s still an adventure, writes Way of Telling author Xandra Bingley
What happens to journalism when working-class voices are silenced?
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What happens to journalism when working-class voices are silenced?

Chairman Mao was Trump but with added brains… and mango 
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Chairman Mao was Trump but with added brains… and mango