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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 · Dec 27, 2024

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.

T3 · Dec 27, 2024

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 · Dec 26, 2024

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 [email protected] for advice on love, work, family and relationships

The Independent UK · Dec 26, 2024

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 · Dec 26, 2024

Jean Adamson obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024

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 · Dec 25, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024

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 · Dec 25, 2024

‘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 Guardian - UK · Dec 25, 2024