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Renowned rock band The Dead Daisies perform 'Something I Said' from their 'Best Of' album on Music Friday.

After the initial tsunami of English punk bands in 1977, The Ruts led the second wave with their reggae-tinged punk rock.

Friday dedicated to crime, followed by two days of romance, fashion

Yvonne Bailey-Smith - Credit: Archant It will be a family affair in Queens Park on Thursday as Zadie Smiths mum and brother see their first books published. Yvonne Bailey-Smiths novel The Day I Fell Off My Island and her son Ben Bailey-Smiths childrens book Something I Said are both being published on June 10. Ben Bailey Smith, also known as Doc Brown, has published his first novel Like I Said. - Credit: Ian West/PA In April, Yvonnes award-winning daughter Zadie Smith published her first child...

Magic can be controversial, though. Not in the sense of US fundamentalists decrying Harry Potter, but in that it sometimes provides a cheap way out of a plot hole. A selection of this season’s books pivot on some otherworldly powers, but this is the internally-consistent stuff of fable and legend, not just deus ex machina hocus pocus. Efua Traoré, author of Children of the Quicksands. Photograph: Boubacar Traoré The setup for Kirsty Applebaum’s of Lonny Quicke (Nosy Crow) is...