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What Virginia Woolf has in common with the Peepo! baby

What does Peepo!, a popular picture book from the 1980s, have in common with Virginia Woolf’s unfinished wartime memoir? More than a little, as it turns out.

The Conversation

JK Rowling says she’s ‘cancelled’ after post celebrating wedding anniversary

‘Harry Potter’ author often faces backlash for her outspoken stance on trans women

The Independent UK

Is ‘doom spending’ draining your money? How to fix your financial habits in 2025

Former financial ‘hot mess’ Emma Edwards explores how to rest your habits in her new book, Good With Money

The Independent UK

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I tested every new Kindle in 2024 – this is the one I'd buy, and why

There are a range of excellent Kindle options out there –but this is the one I'd buy right now.

Deciding to read a book a week was the best new year resolution I ever made

I read 52 books that year and I’ve kept the habit up in the years that followed, the routine now firmly established

The Guardian - AU

Dining across the divide: ‘I tried to push him on reparations, but I didn’t get very far’

They chewed over slavery and the climate crisis, then moved on to gender issues – did they leave on good terms?

The Guardian - UK

Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse review – Holocaust secrets unearthed

Based on a massacre in an Austrian town at the end of the second world war, this thoughtful novel confronts the long shadow of Nazism

The Guardian - UK

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And the Walls Became the World All Around by Johanna Ekström and Sigrid Rausing review – a dying writer’s journal

There is exquisite detail and piercing clarity in these observations from a writer’s notebooks as she faces terminal cancer

The Guardian - UK

Alive in the Merciful Country by AL Kennedy – activism and betrayal

A primary school teacher navigates lockdown in an ambitious novel that asks potent questions about abuses of state and personal power

The Guardian - UK

Voices: My ex wrote a sensational book about me – and it backfired. Badly

DEAR VIX : The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is here to help. Email dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships

The Independent UK

This high-protein egg recipe is next-level healthy and full of flavor

Bump up your plant intake with this joyful purple shakshuka recipe from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest cookbook

Fit & Well

Jean Adamson obituary

Children’s author and illustrator best known for the Topsy and Tim books

The Guardian - UK

Looking back on landmarks of US Black history from an era of erasure – in pictures

A new book offers US students a way to learn about Black history through images amid a campaign to roll back diversity and inclusion programs

The Guardian - US

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – duck tales

The Lakeland shepherd heads to a Norwegian island where eiderdown is harvested to learn lessons about nature and humanity

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The rise and rise of Maye Musk: China’s love affair with Elon Musk’s mother

The 76-year-old is part of a trend of ‘silver influencers’ whose success in the face of adversity resonates strongly. Could she be Elon’s secret weapon in China?

The Guardian - UK

‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum

The Independent UK

Great-grandmother has received a Christmas card from German pen pal for 76 years

Sylvia Perkins, 88, started writing to Lisa Kull in Germany when she was 12 years old.

The Guardian - UK

What in Me Is Dark by Orlando Reade review – the afterlife of Paradise Lost

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

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Marie Claire

Every Emily Henry Book, Ranked—From 'Beach Read' to 'Funny Story'

If you watched the Netflix adaptation of 'People We Meet on Vacation' and want more, here's what to read next.

WhatToWatch

Exclusive interview: Éanna Hardwicke on starring in A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone

A Ghost Story For Christmas: Woman of Stone stars Éanna Hardwicke as a Victorian newly-wed who gets the fright of his life.

The Guardian - UK

‘This book is my bible!’ The women who read Miranda July’s All Fours, then blew up their lives

The wildly acclaimed novel about a perimenopausal woman going on a journey of erotic awakening has left a wave of women following in the protagonist’s wake

The Guardian - UK

‘A sense of freedom’: China’s small bookshops relocate across the world

As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas

Marie Claire

Am I a terrible mother or am I just on Instagram too much?

It’s time to end the myth of the perfect mum

Evening Standard

Of Mice And Men and To Kill A Mockingbird removed from Welsh GCSE curriculum

Both American classics have been criticised for their inclusion of racial slurs.

Marie Claire

Prince William Might Have an Awkward Christmas as His "Secret" Sister, With Whom He Had "Fights," Is Set to Attend

"She would fire back at William, 'Your father has ruined my life.'"

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