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Madeleine Thien: ?I ran in blizzards and -20C ? all I wanted was to listen to Middlemarch?

My earliest reading memory Resting in my father?s arms as he read the newspaper. I must have been three or four years old. He read the paper cover to...

Jacob Alon: In Limerence review ? dreamy story songs of myth and melancholy

The title of Scottish indie-folk musician Jacob Alon?s delicate debut album may seem ironic: the phrase describes an intense kind of desire, and Alon?...

?We want to stop in our prime?: Saint Etienne on their final album, turning down Cher?s Believe, and why pop is a dying art

In Saint Etienne, it is usually Bob Stanley who suggests the band?s tightly defined album concepts. What if you graft folk melodies to dance music? Ma...

Erin Patterson given voice as police interview fills in some blanks in mushroom lunch trial?s fifth week

Erin Patterson watched herself on a screen, her voice filling court room four of the Latrobe Valley law courts in Morwell. She had done little but st...

Ghost Wedding by David Park review ? a thought-provoking novel about the power of the past

Time is layered in Northern Irish writer David Park?s latest novel. The past ever present, it underpins but also threatens to undermine the two protag...

?Beautiful locations to learn in?: readers? favourite creative breaks

Go wild in the country, Berkshire Wider Horizons is an outdoor gathering in Berkshire dedicated to reigniting young attendees? (18 to 30 years old) c...