The Sunday Times - UK (2021-12-19)

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A fter six decades as one of our most celebrated illustrators, Quentin Blake hardly needs a confidence boost, but last year, a t ...

What Blake is good at, apart from drawing, is empathy. Since 2006, he has painted murals for hospitals. He knew that children wo ...

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C onductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim feels like an emis- sary from a different age of classical music. At the age of 79 he ca ...

TELEVISION First book I loved The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber was the first book I really invested in as a young ...

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John Carey John has been our chief literary critic for more than 40 years and is the author of seminal works on Dickens, Donne a ...

Claire Lowdon Claire is one of our fiction critics and the author of the novel Left of the Bang Remember the first time you orde ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS GENERAL HARDBACKS last week weeks in top 10 1 Windswept & Interesting Billy Connolly (two Roads ...

FICTION HARDBACKS last week weeks in top 10 1 The Man Who Died Twice Richard Osman (viking £18.99) stolen diamonds worth £20 mil ...

GHOST STORIES Christopher Hart Sunless Solstice Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights edited by Lucy Evans and Tanya Ki ...

This year, the annual Eric and Ernie fest includes a real treat, a complete episode of their BBC show thought lost for more than ...

TELEVISION of everyone’s worries, when even the ship’s doctor, played by a reedy Jack O’Connell, was off his head on junk. Steph ...

Beauty and the Beast: A Pantomime for Comic Relief lily James will star as Beauty in this year’s star-studded comic Relief panto ...

FILM after Alan Rickman and his gang take over Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Willis and Rickman spar like the old world confron ...

Monroe gets a small cameo. Forget The Devil Wears Prada, this is the grande dame of grande dame pictures. 7 Back to the Future ( ...

40 19 December 2021 SUNDAY 1G BBC1 BBC2 ITV CHANNEL 4 CHANNEL 5 6.00 Breakfast The latest reports. 7.30 Match Of The Day Action. ...