Track recordGeorge the Poet knows better than anybody the importance of reading your surroundings. Born to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north west London, he began rapping when he was 15. This environment was his teacher and his inspiration: it gave him the language, the experience and the skills to turn his hobby into his career. After five years as a rapper, a change of environment pushed him in another direction and into the world of

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For a country so obsessed with the invention

When Oskar Kokoschka's affair with Alma Mahler ended

political theory and economics

that same ex-girlfriend who introduced her to Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

full-colour edition of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale

But how many of us know what to actually do when we're struggling

While not every story has a happy ending

now a major TV series from ITV

it is an edge of your seat international political thriller by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

That's Greta's nickname for her - she is tall