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Kang frees the sensory from intellectual underpinnings to point towards a language that does not stultify with rules, but, instead, celebrates the flaws.

A new sensory garden is to be created at Portadown’s Praxis Care centre following a donation of £6k from NFU Mutual Insurance.

At 17, Terence Smith faced two charges for his role in an armed robbery. After turning down a plea deal, he stood charged with five more crimes and was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison.

In the wake of the death of her mother, divorce from her husband and the loss of custody of her son, a young writer and poet in Seoul turns her attentions to lessons in ancient Greek. She walks miles across the city to the classroom, dressed in a black jacket, black scarf and black shirt

Greek Lessons may not leave readers with a greater understanding of the archaic language, but it will, hopefully, imbue us with a greater respect for the many ways we communicate beyond sound and noise, and how complicated and unifying it is to be fallibly human.

A woman has lost her ability to speak in this latest novel from the author of The Vegetarian

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Much-loved Çalış resident, Lee Stevenson, has died at the age of 55.

Darin Schilmiller, 21, is facing multiple state and federal charges over his alleged online involvement with the Anchorage teens accused of killing 19-year-old Cynthia Hoffman.

Our favourite new reads include a playful anti-thriller, the latest from a Booker winner, and a book that questions if we can still enjoy the art of bad people.