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  Books of the month: From David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue to Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face

  Three powerful memoirs out in July are part of what is more like the usual monthly publishing avalanche. Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray writes about her own battle with obesity in Fat Cow, Fat Chance (Doubleday). Murray admits to the pain she’s suffered after getting vile abuse about her size. Her candid book is an eloquent reminder that “fat-shaming is hate speech”.Fragments of My Father (4th Estate) by Sam Mills is a poignant memoir about being a carer for a father who suffered from menta

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  Blake Mills: Mutable Set review – an ethereal journey into pop's avant garde

  Blake Mills: Mutable Set review – an ethereal journey into pop's avant garde. (New Deal)With his fourth solo album the acclaimed producer faces down the confusion of modern life with intoxicating calm

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  Mike Appleton obituary

  Mike Appleton obituaryTelevision producer who created the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test and supervised the UK’s Live Aid broadcast from Wembley

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  Soothing songs for self-isolation: readers' picks

  Soothing songs for self-isolation: readers' picksWhether it’s Alice Coltrane or Brian Eno, 80s pop or lover’s rock, here are your favourite songs to soothe the soul, collected in a playlist * From Aphex Twin to Al Green: the most soothing songs to self-isolate with

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  Sarah Jane Morris review: An incandescent homage to John Martyn

  With her mellifluous delivery and four-octave range, Sarah Jane Morris could hum a contacts list and still dazzle. Little wonder, then, that her take on the music of John Martyn, the late singer/songwriter who straddled folk, blues, jazz and rock — as indeed does Morris — felt incandescent.

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  Guilty pleasures? For women that’s most of our culture

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  John Smith at Union Chapel, London, review: Wonderfully unforced, unexpected performance

  Whether John Smith is still the most common name in the English-speaking world is possibly a subject for academic research but its power remains as a signifier of the everyday – almost the anonymous. A few have managed it – the man who led the Labour Party in the early 1990s immediately springs to mind, not to mention the Yorkshire beer – but historically John Smiths are barely noticeable. There’s a sense in which the John Smith who has captivated audiences for some years now as a folk singer

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