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Top 5 crime audiobooks — Nigel McCrery

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Sarah McIntyre: Learn how to embrace your mistakes

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Liz Pichon: How to get creative in lockdown!

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The power of books is more important now than ever

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Solitude has shaped society for centuries but the virus changed it for us all

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Images from This Separated Isle, Paul Sng's new photo book project
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First look at This Separated Isle, a new photo book examining divided Britain

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Robert Webb
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Robert Webb and Marian Keyes join independent bookstores lockdown initiative

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Adam Kay
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Adam Kay is bringing together 100 celebrities to tell stories of the NHS

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We don't need to erase the individual to tackle systems of hate

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Dive into 2020 with our picks for spring's best books

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Indie bookshops are bucking high street trends

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The Big Issue's Books of the Year

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The Big Issue Book of the Year 2019: Constellations by Sinead Gleeson

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Kids' Books Of The Year 2019 – the definitive list by our books editor

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Telling Tales bookshop on a boat
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The children’s bookshop that has swapped the high street for a boat

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How the Big Issue steered Tracy Beaker's story

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

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Illustrator Millie Marotta on capturing the endangered little dodo bird

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Michael Morpurgo explains why he rebooted Gulliver's Travels

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Chinglish 1373 Sue Cheung
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Chinglish: Sue Cheung's story of being young, homeless and pregnant

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