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"Freedom without limits is just a word" Terry Pratchett Kamlesh Vaswani's PIL seeking to ban the viewing of pornography and make it a non-bailable offence has raised eyebrows. Columnists and social media commentators have greeted the idea with ...

Terry Pratchett fans celebrated the fantasy novelist's birthday yesterday. According to Tor.com, the beloved author of Discworld is also ?.? If you want to celebrate, check out the finalists for the first ever Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, ...

Sir Terry Pratchett revisits Borneo's orangutans. Learning more about the ocean's gentle giants. Penguins' feathers 'colder than surrounding air'. How do you track elusive great hammerhead sharks? The world's largest rays are tagged in the Red Sea.

In the freshly rebooted Tomb Raider,Lara Croft is one part wide-eyed post-grad and one part mass-murderer. The new vision of the character, conceived for Crystal Dynamicsby writer Rhianna Pratchett, suffers from the same disconnect that other action ...

- Page last updated at 08:58 A series of public talks and readings from contemporary women writers of fiction and poetry comes to a conclusion at our University, as final sessions are announced for May and June. The series, 'Conversations with ...

THE MISER. Directed by Sylvaine Strike, with Lionel Newton, Patricia Boyer, Mpho Osei-Tutu, and Kate Liquorish. At the Baxter Theatre, Mondays to Saturdays until May 25 at 8pm. GREG SMITH reviews. IN A bid to skyrocket their GDP, China has built the ...

It has been trailed for some time but the much anticipated bill has now been tabled from Labour's Lord Falconer seeking to legalise assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in England and Wales. Falconer is said to be keen to remove the threat ...

Howard Jacobson's novel Zoo Time has won him the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for the second time. The annual award celebrates books that capture author PG Wodehouse's comic spirit. Zoo Time tells the story of a writer in torment over his ...

In 1954, soon after publishing the first volume of his Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien received a letter from Peter Hastings, manager of a Roman Catholic bookshop in Oxford. Hastings suggested that Tolkien was over-stepping the bounds of a ...