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CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up some of the best titles to give as stocking fillers – and put you in your loved ones’ good books.

This mesmerising and captivating production is as breathtaking as the film.

The highly accomplished actor drones on and provides a bore of a performance.

The Brazilian player defies age. He started with nothing and now plays for millions, still captaining his country 102 captaincies later.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.

Conquered, subjugated, occupied. For 100 years the Poles were under the thumb of one oppressor or another, but the country fought back by creating art.

The late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was known for Hollywood adaptations of his work. But European movies were closer to his heart.

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie is an ode to his home city and to the football genius who once graced it.

When it comes to becoming an icon to a new generation of moviegoers, Céline Sciamma has been there, done that.. and inspired the t-shirt.

Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.

WILL SELF on his recent stay St Thomas’ Hospital and how it made him realise that the NHS mirrors the strange state of the nation.

It was in her art that she truly lost herself, but this didn't stop Amrita Sher-Gil from finding fault with her work.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a chef who captures London's endless multiculturalism perfectly.

PETER TRUDGILL on the origins of a tasty dessert – and the disagreement it causes in parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

The Football Association lost influence over the sport when it ceded power to the Premier League in 1992. Now, ROB HUGHES asks who owns football?

After the success of The Hare with Amber Eyes, potter and writer Edmund de Waal returns with an exhibition and book of fictional letters about a journey through grief.

The Charles Dickens classic has been staged for the fifth time, and still speaks to modern audiences.

One day, great plays will be written about far-right groups, climate change and racism, but Manor is not one of them.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the truth behind a ludicrous “woke” controversy over the Costa Book Awards.

Volbeat's Lasses Birgitta tells the story of a woman, who became one of many, executed for witchcraft in the Swedish island of Öland, over 450 years ago.

He was a Russian nobleman. He was a secret agent. And his best friend was Lee Harvey Oswald. Meet George de Mohrenschildt.

A new documentary about the former Arsenal manager reveals a man still in love with the club, but also still heartbroken by it.

WILL SELF on confirmation bias and its role in culture and society.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a chef who makes ingredients sing on a plate.

The Austrian-American singer and actress shone on stage. But, her greatest role was a matter of the heart, and she undertook it out of obligation.

Alexander the Great spread the language far and wide. But where did it last the longest?

CHARLIE CONNELLY on new efforts by the US right to burn or ban books they consider dangerous.

This Jane Austen parody is hard to critique... as the cast has clearly predicted every criticism they could receive.

Zadie Smith's modern, relocated take on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath is a bold reimagining.

Ultravox sung about Vienna, Freddie Mercury duetted with Montserrat Caballe on Barcelona and The Stranglers told us all roads lead to Rome but Suede's Europe is Our Playground couldn't be more wrong today

Whoever succeeds Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will inherit a hollow and lost group of players, writes ROB HUGHES.

Romanian director Radu Jude didn't let Covid get in the way of making his latest film. In fact, he turned it to his advantage.