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Use Procreate to create a fantasy character

Fatemeh Haghnejad shows you how to use Procreate to take a fantastical character idea from concept to creation.

Creative Bloq · Aug 21, 2023

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new chapter books

TV presenter Alice Roberts explores the world of ice age hunter-gatherers, Katherine Rundell brings fantastic beasts to life and Simon Packham tackles classroom anxiety with a thumping plot twist

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2023

Red, White & Royal Blue director Matthew Lopez, ‘It’s possible to ask, how far from reality actually is this?’

The Inheritance playwright’s new, lighthearted LGBTQ+ rom-com has become an immediate hit

Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2023

‘It’s a zeitgeist-capturer’: climate crisis and trans rights are talk of Edinburgh festival

Walkout by authors over fossil fuel links plus controversies about identity, racism and sexism are hot topics at politically charged event

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023

Indian writer says Amazon Prime series character seems to be based on her

Yashica Dutt accuses makers of Made in Heaven of failing to acknowledge her contribution to story of bride from low caste

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023

Geri Halliwell recalls learning her father died while studying Hamlet: ‘It woke me up to my own mortality’

Singer’s father Laurence died in 1993, one year before she joined the Spice Girls

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2023

O Brother by John Niven review – a searing study of siblings who go separate ways

The novelist brings skill and hard-won wisdom to a meditation on the contrast between his life and his brother’s struggles and early death

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023

Meet The Winter King cast: who's who in the Arthurian historical TV show

The Winter King cast — here's everyone who's in the new Bernard Cornwell adaptation hitting the small screen.

WhatToWatch · Aug 20, 2023

The Guinness heir who became the ‘saviour’ of traditional Irish songs

Arts patron Garech Browne is the subject of a new book that hails him as a cultural rescuer who helped preserve Ireland’s folk tunes and poems

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright review – a supple, spellbinding scrutiny of familial relationships

A dead poet’s daughter and granddaughter must come to terms with his troubling legacy in the Booker winner’s bravura new novel about language and connection

The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2023