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Film

Mirror Mirror (PG)

If you want to spend a couple of hours lost in whimsical mayhem, go see this film! Like the fairytale Snow White, Julia Roberts is the evil queen who takes a control of a kingdom and it’s up to the gorgeous Lily Collins, the exiled princess, to win it back. Sean Bean’s in it, too, lucky us!

TV

Maestro at the Opera,  Friday, 9pm, BBC Two

Trust us – you don’t need to own a pair of theatre binoculars to find this new three-parter utterly charming and fun! Four celebs, including Strictly’s Craig Revel Horwood and DJ Trevor Nelson, battle it out to conduct a full act of a legendary opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It’s really not as simple as waving a stick around…

Books  

Home by Toni Morrison (£12.99, Chatto & Windus)

This is the latest novel from the Nobel Prize winner, in which we see an angry war veteran of the Korean War back in America. It’s not just physical scars he’s carrying. His home is no longer how he remembers it, and he needs to rescue his sister from the racist town he’s hated all his life. A truly beautiful, poignant read – we can’t recommend it enough.

The Girl in Berlin by Elizabeth Wilson (£11.99, Serpent’s Tail)

Speculation is rife when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party, returns home to see his friends after spending several years in Germany. He has fallen in love with a girl in East Berlin and is bringing her home with him for good. Meanwhile, Jack McGovern has a rendezvous with a real spy and Miles Kingdom is convinced there’s a mole at MI5… This is a novel full of secrets, betrayal and a need for the truth. A brilliantly gripping read.