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Anne Tyler, Indian Summers, Love Is Strange, How to Hold Your Breath, History Is Now

Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread, Indian Summers on Channel 4, Love Is Strange with Jon Lithgow and Alfred Molina, How to Hold Your Breath at the Royal Court and History Is Now.

Anne Tyler's latest novel 'A Spool of Blue Thread' (her 20th) follows the dynamics of an American family through several generations
Indian Summers is a sumptuous drama on Channel 4 looking at life in India in 1932. It stars Julie Walters and follows the early stirrings of political opposition to The Raj
Love Is Strange is a film with Jon Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a gay couple who decide to get married after being together for 40 years and their relationship is put under a strain by forces they hadn't expected
Maxine Peake is in a new play at London's Royal Court. How To Hold Your Breath is about personal and political journeys
History Is Now at The Southbank Centre's Hayward Gallery is subtitled "7 Artists Take On Britain" and looks at 70 years of cultural and social history.

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History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain

The exhibition , is at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre in London until Sunday 26 April 2015. Main Image: Tony Cragg, Britain Seen from the North, 1981, Β© DACS 2015. Courtesy Tate Images.

A Spool Of Blue Thread

The book A Spool Of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is published by Chatto and Windus.

Indian Summers

The TV series begins Sunday 15 February, 9pm on Channel 4.

Love Is Strange

Directed by Ira Sachs, the film Love Is Strange is in cinemas from Friday 13 February, certificate 15.

How To Hold Your Breath

Written by Zinnie Harris, is at the Royal Court Theatre in London until Saturday 21 March 2015.

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