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Great reads for July

TAKING THE form of a diary covering the years 2016-2021, Old Rage, by Sheila Hancock (Bloomsbury, £18.99) finds the actress raging against the dying of the light as she faces up to Brexit, bereavement, a challenging diagnosis and family illness, but still finding joy in the everyday as she reaches the end of her ninth decade.

The act of clearing out his loft (Jonathan Cape, £20) is a joy. And , by Lesley-Ann Jones (John Blake, £20), is an excellent up-close-and-personal account of the Rolling Stones, a band that, 60 years on from their first gig, remain the very essence of rock and roll.

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