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Third yearbook in my ‘loo library’, says author

PROLIFIC author and businessman Robin Bennett has written the third in a series of light-hearted yearbooks, which he sees as ideal reading material for the smallest room in the house. In The Entrepreneur’s Almanack, which is out now, Robin has...

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Return of miser takes the biscuit

BETH Flintoff’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with its nod to the Huntley and Palmers biscuit factory and other Reading landmarks, returns to Reading Rep Theatre in King’s Road from next Friday until January 3. Factory boss...

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Cornwall and Dorset are backdrop for kids’ book

AN AUTHOR from Woodcote whose career as a writer has led to talks in primary schools has written a book aimed at helping children to cope with grief. Sue Palmer, 56, who is married with two sons, Josh, 23, and Joe, 20, was inspired by holidays on the...

Second World War novel on legacy of poppy factory

Organised fireworks displays

Cast excel in blood-spattered fest that is not to be taken too seriously

Moving and meaningful play takes on taboos around brain disease

Giving voice to villainy in both human and supernatural forms

Baritone will sing songs of darkness and light

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Music of maestros helps in wartime

THE beauty of music comes to the fore during cataclysmic events in Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett’s film The Choral (12A), out today at the Regal Picturehouse in Boroma Way, Henley. With the First World War and the battles on the Western Front...

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Seasonal concert

BENSON Choral Society’s next concert, JS Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, will take place at Dorchester Abbey on Sunday, December 6 (7.30pm).Conducted by Thomas Neal, the singers will be joined by the orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, in addition to...

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Third yearbook in my ‘loo library’, says author

Return of miser takes the biscuit

Cornwall and Dorset are backdrop for kids’ book

Second World War novel on legacy of poppy factory

Organised fireworks displays

Cast excel in blood-spattered fest that is not to be taken too seriously

Moving and meaningful play takes on taboos around brain disease

Giving voice to villainy in both human and supernatural forms

Baritone will sing songs of darkness and light

Music of maestros helps in wartime

Seasonal concert

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