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BookTok and the New Golden Age of Crime Fiction
A few years ago, the idea that a short video app could sell millions of books would have sounded absurd. Today it is simply how a large part of the reading worl…
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The Truth About Tax on Gambling Winnings in the UK
Ask a room full of British bettors whether they owe tax on a big win, and you will get a surprising range of answers. Some are convinced HM Revenue & Custom…
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The Drug Shortages That Keep Happening and Nobody Fixes
Every so often, a story surfaces that a hospital has run out of a common medicine — a basic chemotherapy drug, a sterile injectable, an antibiotic that has exis…
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2026-07-02|Noir
Femme Fatale at the Roulette Wheel A Cultural History of Women Gambling in Film and Fiction
For most of its history, the image of the gambler has been stubbornly male: the riverboat sharp, the high roller, the lone man staring down a hand. Yet running …
2026-06-30|True Crime
When the Bet Goes Wrong True Stories of Women Driven to Crime by Gambling Debt
The crimes rarely begin with greed. They begin with a hole, a debt that grew quietly in the dark until it became too large to confess. The women in these cases …
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