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Fri 22 September 2006

 | by Dominic Holland

by Dominic Holland

22/09/2006 … Dominic Holland's first attempt at swapping the gladiatorial arena of the stand-up circuit for the tranquil dignity of a novelist's career is a breezy 21st century…

 | by Gary Morecambe

by Gary Morecambe

22/09/2006 … What can you say about Eric Morecambe that hasn't already been said? The answer, it seems, is very little - even from the mouth of his own son.

 | by Martin Kelner

by Martin Kelner

22/09/2006 … As anyone who's ever glanced through the small ads that fill the back pages of actors' newspaper The Stage will be aware, there is a vast showbusiness netherworld…

 | by Dave Gorman

by Dave Gorman

22/09/2006 … After a successful string of live gigs and a six-part BBC2 series, what can a book tell us that we don't already know about Dave Gorman's obsessive quest to track…

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