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With a string of hit TV shows to his name, and now the UK’s biggest book series, Richard Osman towers above mainstream culture. He tells us it’s a way to sneak some kindness and decency into public life

It took several decades before Hollywood took notice of her versatile talents, but Lesley Manville has always had exactly the career she wanted

In his latest novel about a MMA fighter, John Vercher explores the reality – and the morality – of the devastating effects of repeated trauma on an athlete’s brain