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The Umbrella Academy is returning to comics with a new storyline featuring the Sparrows from season 3 of the TV show

Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá return for the new run

GamesRadar · Feb 18, 2025

Independent bookshops in Scotland named finalists for British Book Awards 2025

Independent bookshops in Scotland have been named among the best in the whole of the UK after being listed as finalists for the 2025 British Book…

The National (Scotland) · Feb 18, 2025

Presidents at War: how battle has shaped American leaders

A new book looks back in history to see how presidents including Reagan and Eisenhower were affected by war

The Guardian - US · Feb 18, 2025

Geoff Nicholson obituary

Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding London

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration

The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread

A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world

The Guardian - AU · Feb 17, 2025

Poem of the week: That by Rebecca Watts

Repetition mounts to unnerving auditory effect as a trapped fly makes a life-or-death bid to escape

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

Julianne Moore in ‘great shock’ after her book is ‘banned by Trump administration’

Books is reportedly under review to ensure it is not ‘potentially related to gender ideology or discriminatory equity ideology topics’

The Independent UK · Feb 17, 2025

Miss Austin viewers are ALL saying the same thing about the BBC show, with some calling the Keeley Hawes drama 'perfection'

Miss Austin fans are unanimous in their approval

WhatToWatch · Feb 17, 2025