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Ahmed Mourad's new novel asks whether evil is an unavoidable route to good, and how much violence is necessary in the fight against the corrupt and the unscrupulous. Sonja Hegasy on a literary slice of Egyptian life before the revolution

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon outside, but under the Calgary Tower, hundreds gathered indoors at the Vertigo Mystery Theatre in a collective effort to solve a murder.

Maxine Peake has spoken candidly about the responsibility of playing Anne Williams, who lost her 15 year-old son Kevin to the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.