Win ‘Wikileaks’ books with ‘The Fifth Estate’!

To celebrate the release of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch’s new movie The Fifth Estate in cinemas on Friday 11 October, we’ve got copies of David Leigh and Luke Harding’s Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy book to give away to three of our Twitter followers!

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Win Professor Stephen Hawking books!

Hawking, an inspirational documentary about the great Professor Stephen Hawking, comes to UK cinemas on Friday 20 September.

To mark the release of the film we have a bundle of 8 of Hawking’s greatest books (including his new memoir My Brief History) – and some Vertigo DVDs (including The Cove, Monster and London To Brighton) to give away to one of our Twitter followers! Two runners-up will also win a DVD bundle each.

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‘Pope Joan’ play review

“Feminism always gets associated with being a radical movement – good. It should be.” So said Canadian actress Ellen Page in a recent Guardian interview, and now another spiky actress, Sherlock’s Louise Brealey, throws her fist in the air with her first play, Pope Joan.

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Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’ radio adaptation audiobook review

Neverwhere began life as a six-part BBC Two series in 1996. Sadly, a limited budget restrained its potential and it was in prose that the story truly came alive. Neil Gaiman, then known primarily for his comic work, is now a world-renowned author whose work straddles the worlds of prose, film and television. Neverwhere has never gone away though, with a comic version, stage adaptations and attempts at a movie in the intervening years.

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