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Make a Date With Kate

The daughter of Chas & Dave legend Chas Hodges is celebrating her musical heritage with a new live show. Kate Garner is taking London Girl on the road, a musical evening in which she sings the songs that have defined her life. Along with performances of the songs Kate's family sang around the piano at parties, and huge hits such as Chas & Dave's Ain't No Pleasin' You, the show will feature specially recorded video performances of Kate playing with special guests including her godfather Dave Peacock, and Great British Bake Off star Matt Lucas. Taking place at Cromer Pier, Norfolk on 22 October (01263 512495, cromerpier.co.uk) and Hoxton Hall, London on 18 November (020 7684 0060, hoxtonhall.co.uk), discover more about Kate at kategarnermusic.co.uk

Kate Garner, daughter of Chas & Dave's Chas Hodges, will be celebrating her musical heritage with a new show, London Girl, which debuts on 22 October.

As You Like It

A limited, handcrafted collection of Shakespeare's The Complete Plays has been created to mark the 400th anniversary of The First Folio. Limited to 1,000 sets and priced at £1,000 each, The Complete Plays will be published by The Folio Society (020 7400 4200, foliosociety.com) in three volumes - comedies, histories and tragedies - on 26 September 2023. The stunning silk and linen-woven bindings have been created using Elizabethan weaving techniques by Stephen Walters & Sons, the Suffolk-based weavers who created Queen Camilla's Coronation robes. Hand-bound by Smith Settle of Leeds, the collection includes introductions by Dame Judi Dench and former RAC artistic director Gregory Doran, and each is hand-numbered and signed by artist and illustrator Neil Packer whose hand-drawn designs for the book bindings are inspired by 17th-century blackwork embroidery, while his illustrations distil each play into a single image.