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Google agrees huge book scanning deal with Italian libraries , China visa snub for Robert Dessaix , Irvine Welsh at the Wheeler Centre and Sarah Dunant talks to Louise Swinn about art, sex and religion

Electrifying Korea, The New York Times' Abstract City Blog, create your own iconic cover and people of the decade

Storytelling at the Town Hall , Alex Miller and Sophie Cunningham on The Conversation Hour , Tax Actually: a 'Robin Hood' tax on bankers and Chrissy Sharp talks to Margaret Throsby

Tim Flannery, curator of the 2010 Deakin Lecture Series, at Copenhagen. and up close encounters with Seamus Heaney

Geoff Dyer on comic novels, Philip Roth and being good at sport, Paul Kelly sings at A Gala Night of Storytelling , Malcolm Fraser at the Baptist Church online now and Lunchbox/ Soapbox: George Megalogenis on the Kevin Rudd Performance Index. Comment now