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Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

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Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film

The Max adaptation of John Green’s 2017 novel ably handles the interior struggles of OCD, if not the threads of its plot

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CJ Sansom obituary

Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries

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CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71

The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’

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Enlightenment by Sarah Perry – a tale of cosmic beauty on the Essex marshes

The Essex Serpent author’s fourth novel, about a newspaper columnist who lives a double life, mixes themes of faith and physics to powerful effect

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A new start after 60: after a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop!

After a successful career as a talent agent – representing Michael Parkinson, Ulrika Jonsson and Adam Ant – Melanie Cantor became disillusioned with TV. So she took up writing – and refused to give up on her passion.

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Met police to pay ‘five-figure sum’ to French publisher arrested under anti-terror laws

Ernest Moret was held en route to a book fair amid fears police are using counter-terrorism powers to target activists

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The Cooking of Books: Ram Guha’s love letter to the peculiarity of editors

In the preface of his book The Cooking of Books, the story of his relationship with his reticent editor Rukun Advani, Ramachandra Guha writes that he presumes readers will interpret it in different ways.

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Shardlake on Disney+ review: Arthur Hughes is magnetic in this Tudor murder mystery

Move over Wolf Hall, there’s a new Tudor drama in town

Evening Standard

Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘Cricket had shown aggressive behavior’

South Dakota governor says she ‘understands why some people are upset’ about story of shooting family puppy but points to state law

The Guardian - US

A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

Letters: Readers share their tips on discovering new authors and reading more widely

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Shutting the door on free movement of young people is a mistake

Letters: Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of The Gruffalo, on the government’s rejection of a youth mobility scheme with the EU. Plus a letter from Ray Kirtley

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The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review – an Eden project of her own

While a cast of literary heavyweights grace Laing’s account of her garden restoration, the real joys lie in her detailed description of the pruning and the planting and the soothing effect on her state of mind

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First true copy of Ravi Varma’s Indulekha to be unveiled on Monday

Unveiling of Raja Ravi Varma's Indulekha painting copy at Kilimanoor Palace on his 176th birth anniversary.

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England Is Mine by Nicolas Padamsee review – a searing indictment of factionalism

The lives of two east London teenagers become fatally entwined in an assured debut novel addressing themes of masculinity and marginalisation

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It’s hard being black in France, says Omar Sy after Aya Nakamura racism row

Star of Lupin says notions of justice, equality and fraternity have been shaken along with his optimism

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‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross

The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King’s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It’s a huge success – and yet is there something missing?

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My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes review – love and shenanigans in a new Walsh sister story

In the bestselling novelist’s latest, Anna Walsh moves back to Dublin and falls for an old flame in a comical tale of grit, growth and self-acceptance

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The Other Boleyn Girl review – the sexual strategising of the conniving Boleyn family brought sharply to life

Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s novel shows how the sisters refuse to be passive victims

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Sunset Song review – a lively if melodramatic take on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel

Morna Young’s new adaptation, directed by Finn den Hertog, captures the earthiness of rural life in early 1900s Scotland, but it needs to dig deeper

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An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery

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In brief: Earth; Vassal State; The Penguin History of Modern Spain – review

John Boyne’s pacy novella about an Irish footballer caught up in a sex scandal; Angus Hanton’s exploration of our ‘special relationship’ with America; and a cliche-free portrait of Spain

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‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway

In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour

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The big picture: Lydia Goldblatt’s reflection on family and absence

Taken over several years, the British photographer’s latest series shows her world narrowing as loss, and lockdown, strike

The Hindu

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Discover simple, accessible poems in this insightful narrative

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