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Book Review: Men Explain Things To Me And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit

Book Review: Men Explain Things To Me And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit

Book Review: It Never Rains by Roger McGough

Book Review: It Never Rains by Roger McGough

Book Review: It Never Rains by Roger McGough

Book Review: Carsick by John Waters

Book Review: Carsick by John Waters

Book Review: Carsick by John Waters

Book Review: The Collapse - The Accidental Opening Of The Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte

Book Review: The Collapse - The Accidental Opening Of The Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte

Book Review: The Collapse - The Accidental Opening Of The Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte

Book Review: The Life And Loves Of A He Devil - A Memoir by Graham Norton

Book Review: The Life And Loves Of A He Devil - A Memoir by Graham Norton

Book Review: The Life And Loves Of A He Devil - A Memoir by Graham Norton

Book Review: A Slip Of The Keyboard by Terry Pratchett

Book Review: A Slip Of The Keyboard by Terry Pratchett

Book Review: A Slip Of The Keyboard by Terry Pratchett

Book Review: Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton

Book Review: Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton

Book Review: Only When I Laugh by Paul Merton

Agincourt: My Family, The Battle And The Fight For France by Ranulph Fiennes

Agincourt: My Family, The Battle And The Fight For France by Ranulph Fiennes

Agincourt: My Family, The Battle And The Fight For France by Ranulph Fiennes

MERRY ANECDOTES: Stephen Fry

MERRY ANECDOTES: Stephen Fry

More Fool Me: A Memoir by Stephen Fry

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Why it’s time to listen

“A bit of a random shot from me, but the opportunity was too good to pass up when I passed this Greylag Goose stood on the river wall at Wapping yesterday

“A bit of a random shot from me, but the opportunity was too good to pass up when I passed this Greylag Goose stood on the river wall at Wapping yesterday

Natural beauty

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Nursing bravery

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Right mix of pleasure and purpose

The Great War: The People’s Story continues on Sunday, on ITV, at 9pm, with Claire Foy as Helen Bentwich, a clever young woman who seized the chance to work in the arms factories at Woolwich Arsenal

The Great War: The People’s Story continues on Sunday, on ITV, at 9pm, with Claire Foy as Helen Bentwich, a clever young woman who seized the chance to work in the arms factories at Woolwich Arsenal

Great and the good

Billy Connolly will appear in the 100th episode of Who Do You Think You Are? later this year

Billy Connolly will appear in the 100th episode of Who Do You Think You Are? later this year

TV’s family tree

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Homing in on mystery

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Cataloguing the World by Alex Wright (OUP £18.99)

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The Race for Paradise by Paul M Cobb (OUP £20)

Women in Shildon who were pressed into industrial service during the First World War

Women in Shildon who were pressed into industrial service during the First World War

Women at war

FRAUD: Lance Armstrong shows son Luke and twin daughters, Grace, right, and Isabelle, his seventh straight Tour de France cycling race trophy

FRAUD: Lance Armstrong shows son Luke and twin daughters, Grace, right, and Isabelle, his seventh straight Tour de France cycling race trophy

Men who fell to Earth

Last Days Of The Bus Club by Chris Stewart (Sort Of Books, £8.99, ebook £2.99) 4/5 stars

Last Days Of The Bus Club by Chris Stewart (Sort Of Books, £8.99, ebook £2.99) 4/5 stars

Living the dream

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Children’s book of the week

100 Things That Caught My Eye is the latest book by Chris Packham

100 Things That Caught My Eye is the latest book by Chris Packham

Heartfelt images

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The New Oxford Book of War Poetry edited by Jon Stallworthy (OUP 16.99)

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Is the Planet Full edited by Ian Goldin (OUP 30)

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Sweet Nothing: Why I Gave Up Sugar And How You Can Too by Nicole Mowbray (Orion £7.99, ebook £3.99)

WE ARE SAILING: The USS George Bush makes an imposing sight

WE ARE SAILING: The USS George Bush makes an imposing sight

Another Great Day At Sea: On Board The USS George Bush by Geoff Dyer (Visual Editions £25, ebook £4.69)

DISGRACED TRADER: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street

DISGRACED TRADER: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street

Hungry like the wolf

POLITICAL ODDBALL: Ukip leader Nigel Farage

POLITICAL ODDBALL: Ukip leader Nigel Farage

Book Review: Protest Vote: How Politicians Lost the Plot by Tim Newark (Gibson Square, 14.99)

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A Curious Career by Lynn Barber (Bloomsbury, £16.99)

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Brazil’s footballing heart

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The Target by David Baldacci (MacMillan, £16.99)

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Who Is Tom Ditto? by Danny Wallace (Ebury Press, £12.99)

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Echo’s Bones by Samuel Beckett (Faber & Faber, £20)

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A Colder War by Charles Cumming (Harper Collins, £12.99)

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The Cultivation of Taste by Christel Lane (OUP, £30)

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, new edition by Hew Strachan (OUP, £25)

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Tiny Stations by Dixe Wills (AA Publishing, £16.99)

Updated: Sheryl Sandberg, 44, is CEO of Facebook

Updated: Sheryl Sandberg, 44, is CEO of Facebook

Lean In: For Graduates by Sheryl Sandberg (WH Allen, £16.99)

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The Girls’ Bicycle Handbook: Everything You Need To Know About Life On Two Wheels by Caz Nicklin

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The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda by Fawaz A Gerges

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The Oxford Dictionary of Finance and Banking edited by Jonathan Law and John Smullen

A scene from 2004 global disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow

A scene from 2004 global disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow

The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World From Scratch by Lewis Dartnell

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The Amoeba in the Room by Nicholas P Money

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The Normans and Empire by David Bates

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The Improbable Primate by Clive Finlayson

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The Oxford Dictionary of Zoology by Michael Allaby

Dancing queens: Linda, Coleen, Maureen and Bernie celebrating the recent Nolans reunion tour which turned out to be a hit with fans

Dancing queens: Linda, Coleen, Maureen and Bernie celebrating the recent Nolans reunion tour which turned out to be a hit with fans

Bernie still inspires me

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Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Hooks, Helps And Hurts Us by Murray Carpenter

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Soldier 4346057: A Second World War Diary by Douglas Hudson

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The Accidental Bus Driver by Thomas Beaumont

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The Rules Of Inheritance: A Memoir by Claire Bidwell Smith

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The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life In Books by John Carey

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The Science of Cheese by Michael H Tunick

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