A Sound MindPaul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved when, as an emerging music journalist in the 70s, he wrote for NME. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and wondrous and found it in classical music. A soaring polemic, a grumpy reflection on modern rock, and a

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but the past isn't through with us

Secret Forest of Dean explores the lesser-known history of Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean through a fascinating selection of stories

'I made friends and enemies alike

Three conspirators

looking out for each other and their 'family' of neighbourhood locals

Rowling's wizarding world has won legions of fans since the first illustrated edition of the Harry Potter novels was published in hardback in 2015

and they give us hope for the future