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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 · Apr 28, 2024

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 · Apr 28, 2024

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

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

‘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?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - US · Apr 28, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28, 2024