The Music Machine
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The success of Florence + the Machine’s debut album Lungs on both sides of the Atlantic has shown yet again that a singular vision and commercial success do not need…
Art & Culture
Start With Why
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For Simon Sinek, the reason is simple: Jobs inspired people because he was clear about the ‘why’, or what it was that made him get out of bed each morning. …
Vanished Kingdoms
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Norman Davies takes the reader on a journey that highlights the contrast between now and then, exploring the workings of historical memory on the way. He reveals how many important…
The Viral Storm
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With the human race constantly under threat of total annihilation, either from weapons of mass destruction or natural disaster, it is interesting to know that we are surrounded by a…
Coming into the Land
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For eight years, Leslie Feist, alongside cheeky multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Chilli Gonzalez, maverick producer Mocky and the singing, sexual-role-defying conceptualist electro star Peaches, made up a group of expat Canadian artists…
Music Review 29
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St Vincent, Strange Mercy (4AD) St Vincent is the nom de plume of 29-year-old multi- instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Annie Clark from Dallas, Texas. Recording music in her bedroom from the…
The Selfish Society
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A pyschotherapist, Gerhardt looks at how our society, culture and politics got to where they are today, and her diagnosis – that individualism has confused material well-being for happiness, that…
Seeking Silence in a Noisy World
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Ford takes us on a whistle-stop tour of different religions, people and landscapes: from Buddhist meditation and Quaker silence to Christian hermits; from travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and Thomas…
The Thrifty Forager
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In her second book, Alys Fowler combines the fast-growing trend for foraging with the necessity for thrift, and the result is marvellous for countryside and urban dwellers alike. Fowler encourages…
