Life is sweet

Christine Gillan in Tom Swan's sweet shop

“Look at me standing next to the Soor Plooms with a soor face – that’s just not me”: the writer’s mother, Christine, in Tom Swan’s Sweet Shop in Renton. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Observer

A shopper’s guide to Lisbon

Lisbon rua augusta

Christmas shopping on Rua Augusta, Lisbon. Photograph: Alamy

Pablo Delgado’s small world

Pablo Delgado

Sex workers are among the diminutive figures pasted up around London’s East End by Pablo Delgado. Photograph: Pablo Delgado and Audrey Gillan for the Guardian

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