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Best detective book series to get lost in gripping mysteries

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

Dale Spender obituary

Australian author, scholar and teacher who wrote the feminist classic Man Made Language and co-founded Pandora Press

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

DSTLRY reveals the details of its next wave of comics, with titles from Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Brian Azzarello, and more

The new publisher is stepping things up next year

GamesRadar · Dec 19, 2023

Percy Jackson & The Olympians cast: who's who

Who's in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians cast? Meet the stars of Disney's YA fantasy adaptation of Rick Riordan's stories of the Greek gods.

WhatToWatch · Dec 19, 2023

OPINION - Columns of the year: All of London life in 2023 through our writers’ eyes

From the Sussexes’ woes to the bully XL debate, from the state of US politics to the conflict in Gaza, the Evening Standard’s comment team have been as incisive as ever

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

OPINION - Cartoonists think every year can’t be as mad as the last. We’re always wrong

At the end of every year cartoonists put down their pens, lean back from their drawing boards and think — well, next year can’t be as crazy as this year was. And we’re always proved wrong.

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

‘He reflected the laughable complexity of the world’: Milan Kundera remembered by Florence Noiville

The literary editor recalls her contributor and friend, a deep political thinker, talented musician and mischievous dinner companion

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

How we met after 60: ‘He is the first person in my life who has really taken care of me’

Sterling, 83, and Berkeley, 76, met at a support group for gay men in 2012. After realising they had a lot in common they fell ‘head over heels’ and now live together in Talent, Oregon

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears review – a Celtic odyssey

A Roman slave and a Welsh tribal leader’s daughter flee to the coast in a story that illuminates the lives of forgotten people

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

This winter’s most stylish fashion books revisit the greats, from Coco Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld

Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld are the subjects of the season’s most transporting fashion books, ready to sustain the style-conscious bibliophile through the cold winter months

Wallpaper · Dec 19, 2023