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Top 5 books on Scotland's witches and myths, chosen by Helen Fields
Witches and spell book
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books on Scotland's witches and myths, chosen by Helen Fields

Lessons by Ian McEwan review: Few can turn a phrase so exquisitely
Piano player
Book reviews

Lessons by Ian McEwan review: Few can turn a phrase so exquisitely

Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri review: Brief encounters with the eclectic life of a city
Berlin cityscape
Books

Sojourn by Amit Chaudhuri review: Brief encounters with the eclectic life of a city

EIFF highlights: From naked New Zealanders to Korean car chases
Naked hitchhikers in Nude Tuesday
Film

EIFF highlights: From naked New Zealanders to Korean car chases

The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens review: The apocalypse is coming for us all, baby
Book reviews

The Visitors by Jessi Jezewska Stevens review: The apocalypse is coming for us all, baby

Top 5 books about bands of boys, chosen by Jason Roche
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books about bands of boys, chosen by Jason Roche

Memory: Another outing for Liam Neeson’s cool black coat
film analysis

Memory: Another outing for Liam Neeson’s cool black coat

Hugh Bonneville: 'I'm not scary, I'm cuddly' – how the Downton Abbey star became the villain in new Netflix film I Came By
Hugh Bonneville
Film

Hugh Bonneville: 'I'm not scary, I'm cuddly' – how the Downton Abbey star became the villain in new Netflix film I Came By

Top 5 books about musicians, chosen by the late Mark Lanegan
Top 5 Books

Top 5 books about musicians, chosen by the late Mark Lanegan

Orlam by PJ Harvey review: Singer-songwriter's poetry book is a rich and unwieldy epic
Book reviews

Orlam by PJ Harvey review: Singer-songwriter's poetry book is a rich and unwieldy epic

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers: a delve inside the mind of a monster
Book Review

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers: a delve inside the mind of a monster

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow review: A friendship tale that straddles Shakespeare and gaming
Book review

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow review: A friendship tale that straddles Shakespeare and gaming

Gabriel Byrne: 'Leonard Cohen has been a soundtrack to my life'
Film

Gabriel Byrne: 'Leonard Cohen has been a soundtrack to my life'

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him
Palestine

Raja Shehadeh: We weren't close in life, but in researching my father I finally understand him

This is Gwar review: 'A goofy, goopy assault on the senses'
Film review

This is Gwar review: 'A goofy, goopy assault on the senses'

Big Issue vendor performs at theatre he usually sells outside
Theatre Royal Plymouth
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Big Issue vendor performs at theatre he usually sells outside

BP-sponsored British Museum forced to close early because of heatwave
British Museum
Climate crisis

BP-sponsored British Museum forced to close early because of heatwave

Willa Fitzgerald on her Watergate thriller 18½: 'We live in a very different political atmosphere'
Film

Willa Fitzgerald on her Watergate thriller 18½: 'We live in a very different political atmosphere'

Denise Mina: 'Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do'
Letter to my Younger Self

Denise Mina: 'Writing is a compulsion. It’s not really something you choose to do'

How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition
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How Herbert Ponting captured Scott's doomed Antarctic expedition