A miserable misogynist is on a quest for redemption in Toltz’s fourth novel, which fizzes with dynamic prose but struggles to engender empathy for its protagonist
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The best recent poetry – review roundup ⊕
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Afterburn by Blake Morrison; Into the Hush by Arthur Sze; Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf; Only Sing by John Berryman; Lamping Wild Rabbits by Simon Maddrell; Dream Latitudes by Alia Kobuszko
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The best poetry books of 2025 ⊕⊕
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of wi…
Shocking claims behind Steve Coogan film The Penguin as former pupil of teacher played by star alleges he was groomed and abused at boarding school aged 12 ○
It's the heart-warming tale of a teacher who brings a penguin back to life after he rescues it from an oil spill - a true story that is now a feelgood film starring Steve Coogan .
Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach ⊖⊖
The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying
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Jeeves Again review – new Jeeves and Wooster stories by celebrity fans ⊕
This collection of new short stories about Bertie and his valet pays homage to the genius of PG Wodehouse – just in time for Christmas
As with most of the giants of late 19th- and early 20th-century E…
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ ⊕
The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later
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‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst ⊕⊕
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and th…
How much chocolate is really in your favourite treat: The list of sweets and biscuits packed with so much oil and filler they can't even be called chocolate anymore ⊕
Club and Penguin bars are among those now being labelled 'chocolate flavoured' - with palm oil and shea oil increasingly filling in instead of cocoa with its rising prices.
Penguin and Club bars can no longer be called chocolate ⊖
The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.