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Street life: Irvine Welsh's new book puts a familiar character on the road in the USA, in a story that deals with paedophilia

Irvine Welsh: The secret romantic

Irvine Welsh became a literary superstar with Trainspotting, his scabrous tale of Edinburgh junkies. He tells Katy Guest how he has mellowed

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Robert Graves, pictured in 1972. He published his first volume of poems in 1916

War poet Robert Graves 'stole work from his mistress'

Few would doubt the brilliance of Robert Graves, a man considered to be one of Britain's foremost war poets whose verses on Greek mythology and frontline conflict cemented his name in literary history.

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