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Although I’ve watched and enjoyed all of the Jeeves and Wooster tv series starring Fry and Laurie, this is my first time reading any of the original stories, and I […]

Welcome to the July issue of The Romance Edit. With the sunniest months of the year stretching out ahead of … Continued

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘(i)’ by Der […]

A mysterious illness sweeps through an isolated girls’ boarding school, in a work brimming with horror, humour and hysteriaEven if it wasn’t perched on a cliff on […]

UK-based GlobeScribe is charging $100 per book, per language for use of its services, but translators say that nuanced work can only be produced by humansAn AI […]

A daughter is brought up isolated from the world in this tender debut novel from an exciting talentIn the woodland, beyond the fence, inside the old forester’s h […]

The Guardian theatre critic’s imaginative exploration of life in the shadowsArifa Akbar, chief theatre critic of this newspaper, is used to working at night: the j […]

Raynor Winn is claimed to have taken ‘around £64,000’ from a former employer and lied about being homeless – accusations that Winn calls ‘highly misleadi […]

Representatives for the couple at the centre of the story have called the accusations ‘misleading’

    70. The Giver. Lois Lowry. 1993. Houghton Mifflin. 180 pages. [Source:
Library] [5 stars, Children’s Fiction; Dystopia; MG Fiction; Newbery Medal]
First […]

   69. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of
Shackleton and the Endurance. Jennifer Armstrong. 1998. Random House.
144 […]

Humanity’s ancient relationship with bees is tracked from our earliest times through a history of ‘woman’s work’ to our collective peril todayCuevas de la Araña ( […]

This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody pastThe literature of the Troubles is a rich one, from Seamus H […]

Not only is nuclear essential if we want to reach net zero – it’s the key to tackling poverty, tooMoney can buy comfort, but energy makes comfort possible in the […]

Having made waves as part of the alt-lit movement, the US author is poised to go mainstream with The Stalker, her most exhilarating work yetWhen I arrive at Paula […]