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The 5 Best Gigs of 2025 (in London)
Has the music scene ever been so healthy?
 • Mark Braund
The Roaring Twenties or The Morbid Age?
My new novel begins serialising today
 • Mark Braund
The Lady from the Sea
Another updating of a classic drama that just doesn't work
 • Mark Braund
Why Leonardo should have stayed in Italy
And the most beautiful building in the world
 • Mark Braund
A career in a thousand words
Where did the last forty years go?
 • Mark Braund
The Evil that Men do
Remembering historical atrocities is important, but it's clearly not sufficient to prevent new crimes against humanity
 • Mark Braund
Cat Stevens is right: what's happening in Gaza is intolerable
And with free speech in the UK under threat, as he also says, 'the dictators are here too'
 • Mark Braund
Becoming a full-time writer
I'm finally realising a lifelong ambition, but am I up to it?
 • Mark Braund
Something magnificent in Bethnal Green
Regents Opera's Ring Cycle at York Hall was a remarkable achievement
 • Mark Braund
Introducing The Bloomsbury Trilogy
Chronicling four tumultuous decades through the lives of a remarkable group of friends.
 • Mark Braund
Another Epic Night at the O2 Arena
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, and Black Country, New Road combined for an unforgettable show
 • Mark Braund
Dealing with Dementia
Tanika Gupta's A Tupperware of Ashes at the National Theatre pulls no punches in its depiction of Alzheimer's Disease
 • Mark Braund
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