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Gypsy life continues to exert a fascination over the British public - 'My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding' has 8 million viewers on Channel 4.

Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely deliver the emotional journey of WE3 - three house pets weaponized for lethal combat by the government - as they search for home and ward off the shadowy agency that created them.

Jessie Kesson's 'The White Bird Passes' tells the moving story of a young girl's experiences as she passes from the city streets into a bleak life in an orphanage in Scotland during the 1920s.

Jessie Kesson's The White Bird Passes tells the moving story of a young girl's experiences as she passes from the city streets into a bleak life in an orphanage in Scotland during the 1920s.

Brian Docherty grew up in Scotland in the 1960s listening to Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon on the radio, hitched across Europe in the 1970s, and then followed the Vikings west to Vinland only to find himself caught 'in the blizzard of history'. 'Woke Up This Morning' is a hitch-hiker's guide to c...