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Virgin Money chief: ‘I have battled with mental health all my life’

Jayne-Anne Gadhia meant to tell just the Virgin Money story in her autobiography and not reveal her struggle with depression, but now proceeds of her book are going to the charity Heads Together

Mahabharata epic set to become India’s most expensive movie ever

Randamoozham, starring veteran actor Mohanlal, will cost Rs 1,000-crore (£120m) and is to be funded by UAE-based billionaire BR Shetty

The Boss Baby makes a dummy of UK box-office competition

Aggressive previews strategy allows The Boss Baby to hold off Beauty and the Beast in the family-film arena, while good weather kills off more mature offerings

Joss Whedon to direct first ever Batgirl film

The Avengers director to move from Marvel to DC as writer, director and producer of the film, which will feature characters from the world of Gotham

Douglas Coupland: ‘The nine to five is barbaric’

The Generation X author on the future of work and how we’ve all turned into millennials

Jamie Oliver to launch new show as part of deal with Channel 4

Chef agrees to work exclusively with broadcaster for another three years, with Jamie’s Quick & Easy showing this autumn

What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson’s next 26 films decoded

The world’s highest-paid actor has a staggering number of movies in the works – and you can probably guess what happens in them from their titles alone

Whisper it: small towns need a Waterstones

The bookstore may be a chain, but it’s a good one. In places like Whitstable, my home, the fetishisation of independent businesses can make life more difficult

Will business rates hike be final chapter for high street bookshops?

Booksellers group says rise will kill off independent stores and berates Treasury for cutting tax for sector’s biggest online rival Amazon

Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history

Pre-tax losses soar to £2.6bn as group – planning to sell its Penguin Random House stake – is hit by slump in US textbook sales

Lonely Planet co-founder: ‘The first book was an accident’

Launched in the 1970s, the travel empire preempted the gap year trend. Today Tony Wheeler is working on five books and is still an avid traveller

Utopian thinking: let’s embrace precariousness as the road to security

Bruce Chatwin understood how ‘civilisation’ represses our need to wander. The ‘gig economy’ may allow us to ditch the ballast of routine for the tonic of change

Brad Stone: ‘We should watch Uber and Airbnb closely’

The author of new book The Upstarts on how the new breed of tech startups changed the rules of the game

Five on Brexit Island lifts WH Smith sales as adult colouring books fade

Spoof titles prove strong sellers – but retailer says sales of last year’s Christmas hit have ‘fallen off a cliff’

He’s had three strikes. Surely Pearson’s chief executive is out?

Two mistakes from the US educational publisher would be understandable. Their confidence three months ago? Less so

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