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During lockdown, Johnny Flynn teamed up with nature writer and commentator Robert Macfarlane to record an album of surprising wit, purpose and solemnity based around the Epic of Gilgamesh. Now, with the world sort-of back to normal, the two have collaborated for a second record. ...
It follows the success of The Beatles' 'last song'.
Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist AS Byatt, who has died aged 87, was once described as the most consciously intellectual woman writer since George Eliot; her dense, cerebral fiction looked set never to command a large public until her novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990 and transformed her into an international literary celebrity.
Former health secretary Steve Barclay has been appointed environment secretary as part of a major shake-up of the cabinet, as previous Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) head Therese Coffey resigns from the role.
The musician-actor and the writer follow their inspiring lockdown debut with another buoyant fusion of English folk and big themes