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The Observer reviews DJ Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951.

The Observer book of the week recently reviewed Colin Grant’s Home Coming and Amelia Gentleman’s The Windrush Betrayal.

Staging a scandal puts Buxton in the running for top UK Theatre Award

Not all Victorians’ values were bad — and Britain’s long-suffering workers would be better off if we’d listen to at least one of them, leading psychologist Professor Sir Cary Cooper has said.

Taking part in Buxton International Festival’s opera The Orphans of Koombu will have inspired young people to make better choices about their future, said one the region’s Local Enterprise Partnership Enterprise coordinators.

Two centuries of John Ruskin’s influence over art and culture will be the topic of debate this October in Buxton — somewhere the writer famously said you shouldn’t be in a hurry to get to…

The cost of lying to the public needs to rise, politicians were warned by veteran BBC journalist Nick Robinson at Buxton International Festival.

Tech firms auction you off to the highest bidder every time you click on a website, historian Martin Moore told Buxton International Festival.

Even sex robots have holidays, author Kate Devlin told Buxton International Festival.

Save the date for our autumn edition of glorious opera, gorgeous music and great authors Fri 18 – Sun 20 October 2019.