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Have you ever wondered where mushrooms come from? This is the incredible secret life of fungi
Nature

Have you ever wondered where mushrooms come from? This is the incredible secret life of fungi

Comic book legend Grant Morrison on drag, defying gender norms and debut novel Luda
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Comic book legend Grant Morrison on drag, defying gender norms and debut novel Luda

Top 5 books about love, selected by ‘QI elf’ Edward Brooke-Hitching
Love

Top 5 books about love, selected by ‘QI elf’ Edward Brooke-Hitching

‘It was time to change the narrative’: How I created the Black British Book Festival
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‘It was time to change the narrative’: How I created the Black British Book Festival

Children’s author Oliver Jeffers: ‘Storytelling is the most powerful force humans have’
Christmas Kids Cover Competition

Children’s author Oliver Jeffers: ‘Storytelling is the most powerful force humans have’

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand review – the ghostly essence of Shirley Jackson
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A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand review – the ghostly essence of Shirley Jackson

Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – a perfectly timed comeback
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Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke review – a perfectly timed comeback

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon review – pure, undiluted Partridge
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Alan Partridge: Big Beacon review – pure, undiluted Partridge

Top 5 children’s books about animals, selected by Oscar’s Lion author Adam Baron 
Children's books

Top 5 children’s books about animals, selected by Oscar’s Lion author Adam Baron 

Machines made the modern world – if we’re not careful they could break it
machines

Machines made the modern world – if we’re not careful they could break it

Top 5 books to inspire you to write poetry, selected by The Poetry Pharmacy’s Deborah Alma
poetry

Top 5 books to inspire you to write poetry, selected by The Poetry Pharmacy’s Deborah Alma

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir
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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure
Books

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure

Remarkable way Terry Pratchett’s lost stories were found by fans: ‘A million-to-one-chance’
Books

Remarkable way Terry Pratchett’s lost stories were found by fans: ‘A million-to-one-chance’

The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling
Books

The Pole review – JM Coetzee at his most beguiling

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds
Books

Top 5 books about Winston Churchill, selected by historian David Reynolds

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Battle to save Britain’s libraries as budget cuts, closures and austerity leaves future uncertain
Libraries Week

Battle to save Britain’s libraries as budget cuts, closures and austerity leaves future uncertain

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper review – if only all fiction was this evocative
Review

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper review – if only all fiction was this evocative

Poet and author Blake Morrison on grief and why he wrote so much about his family
Letter to my Younger Self

Poet and author Blake Morrison on grief and why he wrote so much about his family

Top 5 books about goddesses, selected by best-selling author Natalie Haynes
Mythology

Top 5 books about goddesses, selected by best-selling author Natalie Haynes