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‘I was told books don’t sell here. I knew that wasn’t true’: the English teacher shaking up Nigeria’s publishing scene

After a brush with death pushed Othuke Ominiabohs to self-publish his novels, he realised there was a gap in the market for fresh African writing

In a hospital bed fearing his death was imminent, Engl…

My winter campervan adventure in the Cairngorms, Scotland

A slow jaunt around the mountainous national park, on some of the highest roads in Britain, delivers dramatic scenery, frosty walks and ziplining after dark

The road north takes us through a landscape…

‘Less desirable’: behind lunar new year superstitions of a year of the snake

Some say it’s not the time to make life decisions, but others are countering the bad luck – or leaving those beliefs behind

At Asiastar Fantasy Inc, a San Francisco gift shop that specializes in Chine…

Timothée Chalamet says he put on 20lb to play Bob Dylan. Can that tip the scales at the Oscars?

Radical physical transformations helped De Niro, Hanks and Bale to Academy Awards. But Chalamet’s Dylan still looks like he could by knocked down by a strong breeze

The Oscars are drawing near and you…

‘Denzel was scheming, powerful and sexy!’: readers’ worst Oscar snubs

Hugh Grant’s quirky creep, a real prisoner playing himself and Kate Winslet’s war photographer missed out in a contentious year for Academy Award nominations

• Oscar nominations: the full list

Monkey M…

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