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Kidnap victim announces her engagement
Sunday 22 January 2012
A woman kidnapped at 14 and held captive for nine months has announced that she is getting married. Elizabeth Smart, 24, from Salt Lake City, Utah, got engaged last weekend and will marry this year.
The 50 Best gadgets
Friday 18 November 2011
From terrific tablets to slick smartphones, David Phelan selects the hottest hardware for your Christmas wish list
Susie Rushton: Holiday reading is hard work
Tuesday 16 August 2011
My best holiday memories aren't of sunsets or dolphin sightings but of wallowing in the shallow end of a swimming pool, giant inflatable ring wrapped around my middle, my face shaded by a fat paperback. I can't brag about the quantity of my beach reading like some: I'm slow, easily distracted, and usually only notch up two novels over a fortnight's break even while my hungrier holiday companions tear through one Penguin Classic after another.
Teenage kicks: The Inbetweeners leaps from sitcom to cinema
Thursday 11 August 2011
Its makers are banking on the eternal appeal of teenage humour.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, By David Mitchell
Sunday 20 March 2011
That's rather too much information thank you, David
Between The Covers: 20/03/2011
Sunday 20 March 2011
Your weekly guide to what's really going on inside the world of books
First Night: 10 O'Clock Live, Channel 4
Friday 21 January 2011
They had the big stories, but where were the big laughs?
David Mitchell: 'I wanted to be a wizard. Then I wanted to be prime minister'
Sunday 16 January 2011
Deborah Ross: Trauma awaits those who long for empty nests
Tuesday 07 December 2010
If you ask me...
Books of the Year: Literary fiction
Sunday 05 December 2010
Howard Jacobson richly deserved his Booker prize, but so many other novels divided cultured opinion
So who thinks DAB is the future? Not enough of us to make it so
Sunday 05 December 2010
Ditching analogue radio was meant to be progress. Don't be so sure
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