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Breathing

Zhu Jisong and Wang Jiren

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This Chinese novel is set in Shanghai in the late 1980s. Luo Ke, the protagonist, works as a...

Waiting for the Nightingale

Miles Burrows

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Miles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused - as lovers tend to be - by the inconstant...

The Beguiled (2017)

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Three years into the senseless American Civil War, in 1864, the dilapidated mansion of Miss Martha...

Drama War

Andy Bell recommended Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths in Music (curated)

"This is the record that made me a guitar player. I got given a guitar aged nine and had been taught a couple of things on it, but it’d basically stayed propped against the corner of the room and not used that much… until I first heard The Smiths when I was 13. It was just like, ‘This is what I want to do – I’m doing this! I’m going to be a guitarist in a band!’ “Johnny Marr was like a surrogate guitar teacher right through my early teens - 13, 14, 15 years old - to when I met Mark Gardener at school. We became mates because he heard I could play the riff off Bigmouth Strikes Again and asked me to show him. "That’s how we became friends, so Ride’s got a lot to thank The Smiths for. I still find some of Johnny Marr’s playing totally baffling, like those swoopy lead parts on How Soon Is Now?.”"

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