34 h. ago Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for the little boy, who grew up to be a distinguished journalist.

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2 w. ago Farmers' fury at Mummy Pig's birth story: Outcry from farming community as they point out piglets are born in litters not individually

The news that Mummy Pig has given birth has caused upset among the farming community, with some claiming the show has been disenguinine in depicting how pigs give birth.

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3 w. ago Kazuo Ishiguro: 'When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment'

Movies are a regular presence in author Kazuo Ishiguro's life in part because filmmakers keep wanting to turn his books into them

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3 w. ago Set up small universities in towns to drive growth, shadow Commons leader says

Jesse Norman called for more universities across the UK in small cities and towns in the face of difficulties faced by the higher education sector.

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3 w. ago MSP shares heartbreaking story of why her own mum starved herself to death after cancer diagnosis

Elena Whitman spoke of her mother's decision "to starve herself and hasten her inevitable death" after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer aged just 58.

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3 w. ago Kazuo Ishiguro reveals why he prefers unfaithful film adaptations of his books

‘It’s a form of egomania,’ Nobel Prize winner said

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3 w. ago ‘I had a chance to pass my mum’s story on’: Kazuo Ishiguro on growing up in shadow of the Nagasaki bomb

The film version of A Pale View of Hills, the Nobel-winner’s tale of loss, exile and a pregnant radioactive bride, is about to premiere at Cannes. The writer explains why this story is so personal to himKazuo Ishiguro still remembers where he was when he wrote A Pale View of Hills: hunched over the dining room table in a bedsit in Cardiff. He was in his mid-20s then; he is 70 now. “I had no idea that the book would be published, let alone that I had a career ahead of me as a writer,” he says. “[But] the story remains an important part of me, not only because it was the start of my novel-writing life, but because it helped settle my relationship with Japan.”First published in 1982, A Pale View of Hills is a charged family story that connects England with Japan and the present with the past. Now along comes a film version to provide a new frame for the mystery, a fresh view of the hills. Scripted and directed by Kei Ishikawa, it is a splendidly elegant and deliberate affair; a trail o...

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