Jack Kirby - The Real Comic Book Hero
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Behind today's blockbuster superheroes lies the genius of one man, legendary artist Jack Kirby

A Papal Mystery
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When two Italian authors claimed to have proof that Pope Innocent XI financed the Protestant invasion of England, it was a sensation. But have they fallen victim to an unholy alliance between politicians and the Church?

Harry Who? Meet The New J.K. Rowling
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Stephenie Meyer, a teetotal Mormon mother of three, has sold seven million novels about high school vampires and knocked Harry Potter off the No1 bestseller spot in the US

'My Son, The Bastard'
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Michel Houellebecq's mother, foul-mouthed Lucie Ceccaldi, 83, grants her first British interview

The Stories Of Our Lives
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Carmen Callil set up Virago to publish books that celebrated women - and dreamt of shelves of green paperbacks all over the world

Living In Poverty, The Man Who 'Found' Hitler's Diaries
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A quarter of a century ago, a German reporter called Gerd Heidemann shocked the world when he claimed he had unearthed the diaries of Adolf Hitler