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Jonny Weeks Fri 1 Jun 2012 14.26BST First published on Fri 1 Jun 2012 14.26BST Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Since his debut 45 years ago Doraemon has become one of Asias best-loved animated characters but in the eyes of some Chinese media the chubby, earless cat with the gaping smile is now on a mission to corrupt the nations youth.

The glorious harmony singing and song-writing of the late Kate McGarrigle and her sister Anna was influenced, in part, by the folk songs of Quebec, and Genticorum follow in their tradition with this spirited and entertaining set. This is a trio of young French-speaking Canadian musicians who started out playing jazz and rock before switching

When an Oscar win brought the paparazzi to her door, the actor figured that endless pictures of her with a yoga mat would be of no interest to them. Now shes out of Hollywoods glare, and about to appear on the London stage

From murder mysteries to comic novels, Maggie Shipstead, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nina Stibbe, Paul Murray and other authors choose unputdownable favourites for your summer break Author of Birnam Wood (Granta) and the Booker prize-winning The Luminaries (Granta). Named on Grantas 2023 Best of Young British Novelists list