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'His album replicas never left my turntable. There are people still trying to work out what a genius he was' - Prince'I was listening to Gary Numan. I ended up becoming more polished as a designer. I
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The Garden Visitor's Handbook is the famous yellow 'bible' for anyone interested in gardens and the 2020 edition is now available. Its 744 pages contain descriptions of the 3,700 gardens opening to v
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Jack Reacher is only the second of Jim Grant's great fictional characters: the first is Lee Child himself. Heather Martin's detailed biography elucidates the complex, ever-shifting relationship betwee
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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers b
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