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Literature:
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell review – same theory, but a bit dreary | Malcolm Gladwell
It’s almost 25 years since Malcolm Gladwell published The Tipping Point, which sought to understand social phenomena – the drop…
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Your Journey, Your Way by Horatio Clare review – the Martin Lewis of mental health | Health, mind and body books
One morning six years ago, Horatio Clare got out of bed and looked at the winter sunrise through a locked…
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The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse review – satisfying family saga finale | Fiction
There was something very pleasing about the runaway success of Kate Mosse’s last novel, The Ghost Ship, the third of…
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A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc review – a poignant hymn to an Algerian father | Autobiography and memoir
In a recent interview, French Algerian novelist Xavier Le Clerc said he feels otherness in his bones. When his father…
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Unleashed by Boris Johnson review – regrets? Not even a few | Autobiography and memoir
Spare a thought for the factcheckers at the publisher HarperCollins. For a regular political memoir, those guardians of textual accuracy…
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Companies
MG Cyberster Review: Bringing open-top fun to electric cars at last
But, until now, one format has been conspicuously absent – the open-top sports car. Now finally there is an all-electric…
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Technology
Sony Bravia Theater Quad Review: Crazy Immersion, Crazy Expensive
The Voice Mode feature is similarly effective, using Sony’s Voice Zoom 3 to elevate dialog. Like the Sound Field, it’s…
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Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller review – a marvel of narrative non fiction | Science and nature books
Lulu Miller’s book arrives in the UK four years late, already an international bestseller. Fittingly for a story about the…
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The Outrun by Amy Liptrot review – brutal yet poignant account of life on the edge | Books
Amy Liptrot never imagined she would be back in the remote Orkney islands off the coast of Scotland where she…
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The best recent poetry – review roundup | Poetry
Collected Poems by Wendy Cope (Faber, £20)Nearly 40 years after Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis catapulted Cope to fame, here’s…
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