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Home is where the heart is: once John Carey went up to Oxford, he never left

Review: The Unexpected Professor/An Oxford Life in Books

Can books free you from the confines of your own life? Professor John Carey says yes and no

The Big Sleep, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall Film and Television

Review: The Black-Eyed Blonde

Benjamin Black, author of the Quirke series of crime novels set in Dublin in the Fifties — aka Man Booker Prize-winning John Banville — reveals a knack for channelling the grand master of noir.

Handsome devil: a Neanderthal in the exhibition Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, now on at the Natural History Museum © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum

Apparently we’re all a bit Neanderthal

Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo Svante Pääbo is the director of the Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, and the father of the field of ancient DNA.

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