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Three Argentine footballers have been sleeping on the floor of Frankfurt Airport for FIVE days

The trio had arranged to return to Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo in Brazil. But given there is a travel ban between Brazil and Argentina, a permit was needed to allow their private flight.




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Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for crimes committed by minors after abolishing flogging 

Minors will now receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a 'juvenile detention facility'. Pictured: Abdulkareem al-Hawaj was one of the minors executed in 2019.




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Saudi Arabia will look to secure Premier League TV rights if £300m Newcastle deal is approved

EXCLUSIVE: BeIN Sports have written to the Premier League urging chief executive Richard Masters to block the £300million deal for Newcastle, citing illegal streaming of matches in Saudi Arabia.




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Premier League warned US about Saudi piracy BEFORE beIN Sport sent letter over Newcastle takeover

The Premier League asked the United States government to keep Saudi Arabia on its piracy watch list before beginning checks on Newcastle United's Saudi-led takeover.




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Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund looks 'to buy $12.5 billion Warner Music'

A source said more deals with entertainment businesses in America are to be expected as the country tries to navigate the coronavirus pandemic and the fallout from plunging oil prices.




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Shaynna Blaze on hitting rock bottom after marriage split

Shaynna Blaze announced her split from husband of 18 years, Steve Vaughan, in August 2018.




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I am a long-time fan of Keyes's hilarious, alternately heart-warming and heartbreaking, novels.




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After her wartime novel The Postmistress, Sarah Blake returns with a multi-generational saga about the toxic legacy of guilt among a New York banking dynasty.




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At the start of this slim, intensely absorbing novel about life after shattering loss, a woman loses her bearings in France. She has no interest in the country.




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How sexism blighted history of sex: The Romans entombed errant Virgins and Victorians feared cycling

Kate Lister, author of A History of Sex, makes plain people have always wanted to turn sex 'into a moral issue', with complex social structures and taboos.




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Martini and the recipe for an age-gap friendship: Isabel Vincent's charming tale of platonic love

Isabel Vincent, 55, an investigative journalist for the New York Post, recalls her fond friendship with a 92-year-old man who used to cook her delicious meals in her memoir, Dinner with Edward.




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Alpha-male Brad and his glossy wife and daughters have just moved to a smart North Carolina suburb




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'I was thrashed by a ruthless emperor - at ping pong': Susanna Johnston collates her diary entries

Susanna Johnston has collated a charming and witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. From bring her dementia-ridden father home from Cape Town, to losing at ping-pong.




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WHAT BOOK would thriller writer Clare Mackintosh take to a desert island? 

Clare Mackintosh is currently reading The Giver Of Stars by JoJo Moyes. The British thriller writer revealed that she would take Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson to a desert island.




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Feeling worried about climate change has now been recognised as a legitimate mental health issue.




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Stone me! A house with a four-billion year-old boot scraper

Andrew Ziminski has devoted himself to preserving Britain's greatest structures. The stonemason of 30 years, examines wonders including Stonehenge in a new book.




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Set after the death of Victorian explorer David Livingstone, Petina Gappah's novel is part of a trend for putting history's supposed bit-part players centre-stage.




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This is a fascinating character study in which we catch up with our protagonist at various points in her life.




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Growing petunias on the balcony healed my broken heart

Journalist Alice Vincent has written about finding peace in her plants after a breakup. Rootbound: Rewilding A Life described how her long-term boyfriend broke up with her over breakfast.




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Bedhopping at the end of the garden: Quirky collection of philosophical essays on birds

Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau have written a collection of essays on the behaviour of birds. A Short Philosophy Of Birds looks at how they interact with each other.




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Want to be happy? Learn something new and go for a walk

Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society's progress than GDP.




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How my daring Dad duped the Nazis: Jews were send to Auschwitz but Hans Neumann moved to Berlin

Ariana Neumann (left) wrote When Time Stopped: A Memoir Of My Father's War about Hans (right), her doting Dad. It started when she found an old ID card tucked away.




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Two ears are better than one mouth!

Kate Murphy shares advice for improving your listening skills in a new book. The author who lives in the U.S, claims we're encouraged to listen to our guts, but rarely to listen carefully to others.




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A woman comes across a ten-year-old boy alone in a forest car park on a freezing New Year's Day




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WHAT BOOK would novelist Sebastian Barry take to a desert island?

Sebastian Barry is currently reading Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time by Gaia Vince. He said he was unable to read until he was eight.




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How does my garden grow? With broken fingernails, chilblains, rampant slugs and damned hard work

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.




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Barry's Costa-winning novel Days Without End told the story of Thomas, who flees the Irish famine and ends up fighting in the American Civil War




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It's fifties South London, among the Windrush generation. Twentysomething Lawrie is getting to grips with his new home.




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Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, this compulsive revenge novel is set in America in 2026,




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Evie Wyld's powerful, intensely absorbing third novel is haunted by ghosts




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The relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, for whom he wrote So Long, Marianne among others, has already been told on film.




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WHAT BOOK would fantasy novelist Sarah J. Maas take to a desert island? 

Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh's A Madness Of Sunshine. The American fantasy novelist revealed that she would take Sally Thorne's The Hating Game to a desert island.




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Bourne won multiple plaudits for her Young Adult books but moved into grown-up territory in 2018 with How Do You Like Me Now?




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Hold on - wasn't Anne Tyler going to retire? This is her third outing since 2015's A Spool Of Blue Thread, supposedly her final novel




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Five months after the death of her alcoholic mother, sales assistant Ava is hit by a car




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This brilliant novel, by the bestselling author of The Secret Life Of Bees, imagines that Jesus had a wife: brainy, rebellious and resourceful Ana.




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From the Sahara to Somerset, the birds that bring spring

Tim Dee examines how swallows migrate across Africa to Europe each year, in a new nature book. He begins his travels in the Sahara desert, where the birds are heading northwards.




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Lancashire: a neglected space caught between the twin poles of tourist magnets the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales - two places, incidentally, that are also richly imagined in literature.




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Greenwell's exquisitely written debut, What Belongs To You, followed an aspiring poet who moves from Kentucky to Bulgaria




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I loved Hulse's hilarious, skilful debut The Adults, which was stuffed with believable characters, and this second book is just as witty, warm and brilliantly realised




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Like the titular mammal, this is a curiosity: part 21st-century political satire, part unexpectedly affecting 19th-century love story.




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Eve Chase's novels are about glamorous families with tragic pasts, set in wonderful locations




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WHAT BOOK would farmer and writer Amanda Owen take to a desert island? 

Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak And High Society Scandal In Kenya by Frances Osborne. The British writer would take Swaledale to a desert island.




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A library for rejected manuscripts established by a book-loving loner in a sleepy Breton town becomes the talk of literary Paris




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Harrowing account of: Facing death in the desert 

Claire Nelson who shattered her pelvis when she fell 20ft while hiking in California, reveals how she survived in the desert until she was found in a new memoir.




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Grief that inspired the Bard

Hamnet is Maggie O'Farrell's first foray into historical fiction, and, as with her contemporary work. It follows Hamnet, the young, day-dreamy son of William Shakespeare.




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Agonising search for the lost fallen

Missing by Richard van Emden follows the story of Francis Mond who died on May 15, 1918, aged 23, when his RAF plane was shot from the skies and plummeted into no man's land in Northern France.




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The one battle he could not win: Soldier turned MP Dan Jarvis

Former paratrooper Dan Jarvis, who is now Labour MP for Barnsley Central, has penned a memoir revealing the horrors of war and the heart-wrenching death of his first wife Caroline.




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Never let your collapsing husband spoil a dinner party

Clare Hastings reflects on the life of her mother Ann Scott-James in a new memoir. The journalist who read at Oxford, once continued a dinner party although her husband had collapsed.




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Swimming nose-to-nose with your greatest fear

Georgie Codd has written about her journey to overcome a fear of fish. She travels across the world from London to Thailand for a scuba diving course. She eventually swims with a shark.