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Games Workshop shares leap as the Dwarfs, Orcs and Elves retailer says its profits are set to surge

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Games Workshop shares leap as the Dwarfs, Orcs and Elves retailer says its profits are set to surge Retailer expects sales for the six months to December to be at least £140m Nottingham-headquartered firm said profits for the period will be at least £55m Shares climbed 17 per cent to 5267p following the update on Friday   … Read more

DOMINIC LAWSON: Why chess can help new dads change a nappy

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MEMOIR THE MOVES THAT MATTER by Jonathan Rowson (Bloomsbury £20, 352pp)  Grandmaster chess is associated in the public’s mind with disproportionate levels of eccentricity, or even insanity. This is a statistically invalid cliché created by journalists who don’t have a passion for the game themselves and therefore can’t understand why others would devote their lives … Read more

DEBUTS – Nov 07, 2019

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DEBUTS By Fanny Blake for the Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 7 November 2019 | Updated: 22:14 GMT, 7 November 2019 DELAYED RAYS OF A STAR DELAYED RAYS OF A STAR by Amanda Lee Koe (Bloomsbury £16.99, 400 pp) by Amanda Lee Koe (Bloomsbury £16.99, 400 pp) A photograph taken of a chance meeting between … Read more

POPULAR FICTION – Nov 07, 2019

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POPULAR FICTION By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 7 November 2019 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 7 November 2019 THIS IS YESTERDAY THIS IS YESTERDAY by Rose Ruane (Corsair £14.99, 320 pp) by Rose Ruane (Corsair £14.99, 320 pp) This stunningly written debut timeslips between a present-day hospital ward and the summer … Read more

LITERARY FICTION – Nov 07, 2019

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OLIGARCHY OLIGARCHY by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99, 224 pp) by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate £14.99, 224 pp) We never see the oligarch in Scarlett Thomas’s latest: he’s a fabulously wealthy, shadowy Russian, possibly criminal, who has sent his adolescent daughter Natasha, the recently discovered product of a long-ago fling, to an all-girls English boarding school, ostensibly … Read more

PICTURE THIS – Nov 07, 2019

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PICTURE THIS By Gerry Fallon For The Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 7 November 2019 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 7 November 2019 Spirit of the Amazon: The Indigenous Tribes of the Xingu by Sue & Patrick Cunningham (Papadakis, £40, 228 pp) Spirit of the Amazon: The Indigenous Tribes of the Xingu by Sue & Patrick … Read more

MUST READS – Nov 07, 2019

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MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:10 GMT, 7 November 2019 | Updated: 22:10 GMT, 7 November 2019 The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Harper Collins £8.99, 416 pp) The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Harper Collins £8.99, 416 pp) A group of old university friends spend New Year in a … Read more

How the humble coconut shaped the world!

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HISTORY COCONUT: HOW THE SHY FRUIT SHAPED OUR WORLD by Robin Laurance (History Press £15.99, 224pp) You’d never have guessed it, but the humble coconut underpins rather a lot of what we laughingly call western civilisation.  Without it, millions more soldiers would have died in both world wars. John F Kennedy might never have become … Read more

WHAT BOOK first turned comedian and writer Arthur Smith to reading?

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WHAT BOOK first turned comedian and writer Arthur Smith to reading? Arthur Smith is currently reading Sloot by the Irish writer Ian Macpherson He would take the Complete Works of Shakespeare to a desert island The Man Who Didn’t Wash His Dishes by Phyllis Krasilovsky first got him reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:00 GMT, … Read more

HMRC overtaxing pensioners at record rate

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HMRC pays back £535m wrongly claimed on pension withdrawals as it overtaxed pensioners at record rate Pensioners have been clobbered with a huge bill after being overcharged In the three months to September 30, HMRC had to repay £54m It had applied ’emergency tax’ to pension withdrawals By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 23:31 … Read more