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Britain's poshest prison

He lost the use of his legs and decided he was 'finished'. But making a gloomy new film proved just the tonic for Italy's most infamous director

Colin Thubron reveals what drives him to the world’s most remote outposts, and how his latest book is different from his other novels

The very big read of Britain's who's who

Twenty years ago the illustrator Quentin Blake received a strange shaped parcel. Unwrapping it, he found "a large sandal of a type unfamiliar to me'' — a present from the author, Roald Dahl, with whom Blake was collaborating on a book, The BFG.