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Rivals star reveals Jilly Cooper visited set just days before her death

Author also watched three episodes of new season, says Alex Hassell

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2025

‘There’s an emotional intensity’: Polly Samson on her photos of David Gilmour

INTERVIEW: As she releases a new photobook documenting the creation and subsequent tour of the Pink Floyd star’s fifth solo album, ‘Luck and Strange’, Samson tells Roisin O’Connor how she is ‘endlessly fascinated’ by Gilmour’s playing and the quest to capture ‘something about that expressiveness’

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2025

Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung review – sinister stories from the graveyard shift

Horror tropes meet modern nightmares as the South Korean author takes us deep inside a research facility called The Institute

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2025

Four key questions about Jeffrey Epstein that Virginia Giuffre’s tell-all memoir fails to answer

Abuse survivor’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl provides disturbing reminder of how much remains unknown about the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking operation

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025

Colleen Hoover misses Regretting You film premiere over ‘unavoidable surgery’

The film, based on Hoover’s book of the same name, hits theaters October 24

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025

Virginia Giuffre Memoir Goes On Sale, Piling Pressure On Prince Andrew

The memoir of one of Jeffrey Epstein's main accusers whose claims sparked the downfall of Britain's Prince Andrew shot to the top of Amazon UK's bestseller list Tuesday as it went on sale, ratcheting up pressure on the disgraced royal.

International Business Times · Oct 21, 2025

‘Epic with a capital E’: inside Elmet, a tale of violence and greed on haunted Yorkshire heath

Elmet, a novel that was shortlisted for the Booker, is a lyrical, richly written tale of a woodland family on a collision course with an avaricious landowner. Can it work on stage in Bradford?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2025

Smearing Virginia Giuffre: What New Allegations Against Prince Andrew Reveal About Power and Silence

Why smear campaigns by powerful men still work so well

Marie Claire · Oct 21, 2025

Virginia Giuffre accuses her father of abuse and of taking Epstein hush money in new memoir

Late campaigner alleges in Nobody’s Girl that she was abused long before being groomed by the billionaire pedophile, a claim denied by her father

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2025

How to watch 'In My Own Words: Frederick Forsyth' online from anywhere

Multi-million bestselling author looks back at his life. Here's how to watch "In My Own Words: Frederick Forsyth" online, on TV and from anywhere in the world.

Tom’s Guide · Oct 21, 2025