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Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers
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Summer fiction: I Can Do Rude by Maya Kulukundis
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Booker Prize longlist 2025 ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’, says chair of judges Roddy Doyle
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