First edition of The Hobbit found at routine home clearance
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Sarah Spinks to release debut children’s book Little Cat Lost
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Not a child’s world | Review of Age of Mondays by Lopa Ghosh
The inner world of Vera Narois, the 10-year-old protagonist of Lopa Ghosh’s new novel Age of Mondays, is surprisingly…
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I’ll happily cry my way through a sentimental plot, speedily flip through the pages of a juicy memoir,…
‘The Sleep Room’ is the harrowing story of psychiatric care in the 1960s
“The Sleep Room” by Jon Stock. Abrams Books via AP In the 1960s, a hospital in London held…
Julia Whelan has narrated 600 audiobooks and counting. So why isn’t she paid like it?
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Allan Ahlberg, celebrated children’s author, dies aged 87
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