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5 days ago

Rivals’ Rutshire – a place where modern Britain’s brutal divisions disappear in a cloud of sex | Jess Cartner-Morley ⊕

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As the second series of the Jilly Cooper adaptation climaxes, we can be thankful that quality TV doesn’t always have to be bleak and stressful

For Jilly Cooper devotees – a motley band that unites me …

25 days ago

Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list ⊕

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Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights; Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide

• See the full list here

As Stephen King points out, compiling…

42 days ago

Charles quoted Wilde and Dickens in measured masterclass – and no tirade as yet from mad monarch in White House

A flick of Oscar Wilde here, a nod to Henry Kissinger there, a sprinkling of Charles Dic…

86 days ago

Head coach Alan Dickens leaves Newcastle Red Bulls as former Wales fly-half Stephen Jones takes over for the rest of the season.

3 months ago

Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal items

Rare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt collar worn…

4 months ago

The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the seismic effect of Sigrid Nunez, and wanting to write like Virginia Woolf

My earliest reading memory
Asking my mom if she could stop reading my bedtime book to m…

5 months ago

Santa was seen as most likely to back Zack Polanski's party if he backs anyone at the next election, in a poll by YouGov.

6 months ago

Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog ⊖

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Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing

Keen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol…

7 months ago

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling audiobook review – an all-star outing ⊕⊕

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Cush Jumbo, Hugh Laurie and Matthew Macfadyen bring extra twinkle to Rowling’s magical tale

It has become tradition for Audible to bring out the big guns in the run-up to Christmas and deliver star-st…

9 months ago

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of Fran…

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