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Attica Locke’s double-barrelled saga

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Culture wars in the United States form the backdrop to this taut political cliffhanger.

Well boiled: Philip Marlowe’s long hello again

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The 23rd novel by the Irish writer John Banville feels like the literary equivalent of Winston Churchill's description of Russia.

How to be cool: Less ?is Elmore

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Elmore Leonard’s slang-slung writing style was ?celebrated for "leaving out the bits that readers skip".

Carl Hiaasen’s monkey antics

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There is a confidence, economy and enjoyability to "Bad Monkey" that give the impression of a writer back in love with his franchise.

Rankin’s favourite DI is back on the beat

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The 28th work of fiction from Scotland's most successful crime writer turns on five ominous disappearances.

Son of HAL feeds on fear

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<em>The Fear Index</em>, a financial what-if, takes place entirely on the day that the Blair-Brown years officially ended: May 6 2010, election day.

After Freud, the camera will rule supreme

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The death of Lucien Freud highlights a specific crisis in the art of the ­traditional portrait.

The documentary’s last stand

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Is this a good time for factual film-making? It depends on your definitions of fact and film.

Bin Laden: the everywhere and nowhere man

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Instead of disguising himself in time-honoured fugitive tradition, this terrorist enjoyed provoking his enemies by distributing images of his face.

Villainy afoot in the Vatican

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From the facetious British foreign office memo writers to prophetic novelists, the pope and Catholicism have become the evil force of choice.

Existential angst gets a feel-good spin

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Bad times call for upbeat slogans, producers seem to think, no matter what the film is really about, writes Mark Lawson.

Is this what Michael Jackson would have wanted?

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Until this week, the stand-out detail about the director Kenny Ortega was his habit of fining cast and crew a dollar for yawning on his sets.
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