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Oct 23, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Diamandis, Marina © Brendan Walter The Culture List, Book Club, Books, Music | By Welsh singer-songwriter MARINA – AKA Maria Diamandis, formerly known by the stage name Marina and the Diamonds – is perhaps best-known for albums such as The Family Jewels, Electra Heart and Love + Fear. Now, she’s branching into poetry, with the release of her book Eat The World.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Mariana Torres |Amal El-Mohtar |Max Gladstone
Courtesy Boekhandel Dominicanen Bookshop Spotlight, Book Club, Books | By Welcome to Bookshop Spotlight, Service95’s guide to literary treasure troves around the world. Whether you’re looking for your next great read, somewhere to visit during your travels or a place to find your people, you’ve come to the right place With its pointed arches and vaulted ceilings, Boekhandel Dominicanen conjures images of our favourite gothic novels.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Courtesy Strand Book Store Bookshop Spotlight, New York, Book Club, Books | By Welcome to Bookshop Spotlight, Service95’s guide to finding your next literary treasure trove. Whether you’re looking for the next book to keep you up all night, somewhere to visit during your travels or a place to find your people, we’ve got you covered.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles
Charlie J Doherty My Culture Hits, People | By Jordan Stephens is a musician, actor and now writer, best known as one-half of the hip-hop duo Rizzle Kicks. He also hosts the TV show Don’t Hate the Playaz. With the release of his debut book Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak & Dogs, Jordan shares what he is reading, watching and listening to… A Creative I’m Loving… is one of my best friends, [writer] Caleb Femi.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |James Baldwin |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Matt Haig, (c) Kan Lailey My Culture Hits, Book Club, Arts & Culture | By Matt Haig is an award-winning novelist and journalist perhaps best-known for his book The Midnight Library, a fantastical novel about Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death. He’s also the author of 2015’s Reasons To Stay Alive, in which he explores his own relationship with wellbeing.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Photo by The Washington Post / Getty Images LGBTQIA+, Social Justice & Activism, Identity, List | By Felix Pilgrim is the creative mind behind Queer In The Country, a photographic project aiming to diversify the narrative surrounding the media’s depiction of the queer community. His work aims to capture an accurate image of what it means to be LGBTQIA+ in the countryside and to show the world that queerness isn’t specifically an urban experience.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Sam Selvon |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Arts & Culture, Books | By “I definitely would not be here had it not been for access to literature”, says Sofia Akel, multi-award-winning cultural historian and founder and director of The Free Books Campaign and Festival.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
© Felix Pilgrim LGBTQIA+, Arts & Culture, Art, Identity | By Photographer Felix Pilgrim grew up in the buzz of Bristol, in the southwest of England. Despite this, he always romanticised country living, escaping to the pages of Thomas Hardy novels and daydreaming of the hills and fields surrounding the city. “When you live in Bristol, there’s always a hill on the horizon,” says Pilgrim.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Book Club, Social Justice & Activism, Books, List | By With growing numbers of people fleeing war, famine and climate change across the world, it’s never been more important to amplify refugee voices. By the end of 2024, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency predicts that 120 million people globally will be forcibly displaced or stateless. So, to mark World Refugee Day this 20 June, Service95 recommends five authors from around the world whose stories are not to be missed. 1.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
service95.com | Ella Marlow-Gilks |Jamie Styles |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
My Culture Hits, Book Club, Arts & Culture, People, List | By In Service95 Book Club’s series My Culture Hits, we chat with authors to find out what’s on their cultural radar. This month, we met the multi-award-winning Jamaican writer Marlon James, whose book A Brief History Of Seven Killings celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, a special edition of the book has been released, with a brand new foreword by fellow Booker-winning author Bernardine Evaristo.
