GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
Polished police procedurals
ARMAND GAMACHE, head of homicide detectives in Quebec, has much on his mind in Louise Penny’s A Better Man (Sphere, £19.99).
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Read Sisters, the journal of the National Assembly Of Women, below.
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year



