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• Scandaltown, Mike Bartlett's modernistic-twenty-four hour period Restoration comedy, feels like champagne gone flat

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  Chris Tarrant, Sally James and Spit the Domestic dog came together at St George'southward, Bristol – and the audience regressed en masse to the 1970s

Comment and analysis

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  Gems of British movie house are going to be lost unless we go organised, preserve and restore them. Here'due south where conservators should start...

  

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  The lack of a Cannes annunciation hasn't stopped the whisper train – is the master of arthouse bizarrerie returning after xvi years?

  

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  The 2009 play, which is beingness revived in the West End, feels at odds with theatre's current demand to make us feel shame virtually nationhood

  

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  Remembering the very best of Gardeners' Question Time every bit Radio iv celebrates 75 years of its horticultural gem

  

Reviews

• A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon review: a serial killer thriller that's as well neat for its ain good

  The writer of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep returns with a novel that sacrifices human complexity for inexpensive twists

  

• The German tycoons who got fat on the Nazi killing auto

  After reading David de Jong's Nazi Billonaires, you lot will never again buy a Volkswagen, a Dr Oetker pizza or Allianz insurance without unease

  

• Scandaltown, Mike Bartlett's modern-twenty-four hour period Restoration comedy, feels like champagne gone apartment

  It's a skilful premise: a boisterous satire on the lazy thinking behind the culture wars. Just the panto-ish result feels late to the party

  

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  Bob Stanley'southward brilliantly entertaining volume The Birth of Pop reveals how popular trends were fabricated, and how racism has skewed the narrative

  

• The Premonitions Bureau: how 1960s scientists tried to predict disasters through dreams

  Sam Knight's atmospheric volume investigates a forgotten branch of psychiatry which sought to harness the ability of spookily prophetic visions

  

• What'due south Xi Jinping really thinking? Ask Kevin Rudd, ex-PM of Australia and fluent Mandarin speaker

  Drawing on lengthy meetings with China's leader, Kevin Rudd's new book The Avoidable State of war? is ane of the best primers on US-China relations

  

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• A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon review: a serial killer thriller that'due south as well swell for its own skilful

  The author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep returns with a novel that sacrifices homo complexity for inexpensive twists

  

• Gnomes, grottos and tame hermits: the weirdest English language gardens in history

  English Garden Eccentrics past Todd Longstaffe-Gowan unearths 4 centuries of unfettered horticultural fancies

  

• Recluse, prophet, madman: who is the real Cormac McCarthy?

  Equally writers and critics explicate, the author of The Route and No Country for Sometime Men has his passionate defenders – and detractors

  

• The Lord Lucan of literature: why did Rosemary Tonks vanish?

  Why did Rosemary Tonks, the Swinging London satirist, pull a vanishing act? Her editor Neil Astley, and super-fan Stewart Lee, explain

  

• Gnomes, grottos and tame hermits: the weirdest English language gardens in history

  English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan unearths iv centuries of unfettered horticultural fancies

  

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  As the building's 800th anniversary nears, we meet the squad responsible for its ongoing survival

  

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  A new exhibition celebrates the Egyptian experts whose part in Howard Carter's famous dig accept been disregarded

  

• The Turner Prize has remembered why it exists

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• A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon review: a series killer thriller that's too neat for its own good

  The writer of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep returns with a novel that sacrifices human complexity for cheap twists

  

• Gnomes, grottos and tame hermits: the weirdest English gardens in history

  English Garden Eccentrics by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan unearths four centuries of unfettered horticultural fancies

  

• Recluse, prophet, madman: who is the real Cormac McCarthy?

  As writers and critics explain, the author of The Road and No Land for Old Men has his passionate defenders – and detractors

  

• What'south on TV tonight: Yorkshire Midwives on Call, House of Maxwell, and more

  Your complete guide to the week's television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

  

• The Lord Lucan of literature: why did Rosemary Tonks vanish?

  Why did Rosemary Tonks, the Swinging London satirist, pull a vanishing act? Her editor Neil Astley, and super-fan Stewart Lee, explicate

  

• The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, review: a very British offense story, superbly told

  ITV's new miniseries about how John Darwin faked his ain death features superb grapheme interim and nighttime comic relief

  

• Jodie Whittaker'southward penultimate Doctor Who left us with one question: will she go the daughter?

  Convoluted plotting and feeble monsters distract from the all-time Who storyline in ages: Yaz and the Md'south burgeoning romance.

  

• The German tycoons who got fatty on the Nazi killing machine

  Afterwards reading David de Jong'southward Nazi Billonaires, you will never again buy a Volkswagen, a Dr Oetker pizza or Allianz insurance without unease

  

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