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...The novel even features, as a postscript, its own playlist of key tracks featured in the text: Nick Cave to The Beatles; David Bowie to Amy Winehouse....
...American alto saxophonist David Binney describes his 10th release for the Dutch-based Criss Cross label as being “nothing too complicated or intense”....
...I first heard her soul mix on the then-underground Austrian radio station FM4, and I find the subtle guitar and the melody very relaxing....
...Ocean Vuong The grandson of an American soldier and Vietnamese farm girl, Ocean Vuong pours his extraordinary family history into his writing....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...David Gardner is international affairs editor at the FT Photograph: AFP / Getty...
...They had also managed something that Cain failed to achieve: how to battle your brother to the death without killing him....
...I’m still here, I’ve got a new record, I’ve got a farm in Hawaii.” Ah yes, that farm. Hawaii is, she whispers, “just smart”....
...“The RSPCA’s basic point of view,” said David McDowell, the charity’s acting chief veterinary adviser, “is that the animals have made a deal with us and we have made a deal with the animals....
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