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From John Bunyan to James Bond, fiction has abounded in cautionary and seductively glamorous tales of gambling. One of my favourite high-stakes players is Becky Sharp, the self-serving anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
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US fantasy author Ursula K Le Guin dies
She melded dragons and wizards with spaceships to tackle earth-bound issues of gender and class.
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Having recently read Lucy Mangan's book "The Bookworm" I have looked back on the books I loved as a child. The magic worlds that they opened up. Which books would you recommend for children today - either books from your childhood or new discoveries.
- The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin