The cucumber salad of your dreams You'll be eating Sheela Prakash's cucumber salad all summer long Salon · Jun 18, 2023
The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure Editorial: Nearly three decades after the founding of the Women’s prize, the fight for space in fiction has largely been won. It’s time to move on to politics, history, science, sport… The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Robert Gambles obituary Other lives: History teacher who had a second career as an author, often writing about the Lake District, on which he became a recognised authority The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Kate Garraway's career move amid husband Derek's recovery from Covid She hopes it will help other people through difficult times Nottingham Post · Jun 18, 2023
Bono has Hollywood star Tom Hanks staying with him in plush Dublin mansion Instead of staying in a hotel, he accepted an invite to stay at the Dalkey pad of Bono, 63 Dublin Live · Jun 18, 2023
16 reasons you should never be friends with anyone who lives in Edinburgh These stereotypes are definitely not true but we can't deny that we are immensely proud of our city, it's not our fault that our Glaswegians get jealous. Edinburgh Live · Jun 18, 2023
Kala by Colin Walsh review – vanishings, betrayals and friends reunited in rural Ireland This confidently plotted debut novel from the award-winning short story writer has a strong cast and vivid dialogue The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Prince Harry recalled ‘yawning silence’ that followed Meghan Markle’s joke after first Trooping the Colour Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first Trooping the Colour together in 2018, but are not at this year’s celebration The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2023
Daisy Jones & the Six: Glamour, rock and the world of the 1970s Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid The National (Scotland) · Jun 18, 2023
‘I feel love’: Nicholas Blair’s images of gay joy and defiance in 80s America A new book of photographs memorialises the excitement, humour, intimacy – and lurking peril – on the streets in San Francisco and New York where the gay community thrived The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Beth Mead: ‘I told Saka just to curtsy when he sees me!’ The Arsenal and England footballer on her MBE, her terrible singing voice – and the best and worst year of her life The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Bono has secret Hollywood star staying with him in plush Dublin mansion A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror that rather than stay in a hotel he accepted an invite to stay at the Dalkey pad of Bono, 63. Irish Mirror · Jun 18, 2023
Conservative Author Warns Israel About Transgender Ideology Trans activists' failed in their efforts to cancel talk by U.S. journalist Abigail Shrier promoting a translation of her 2020 book Zenger · Jun 18, 2023
Female novelists don’t need their own prizes. Let’s abolish them Barbara Kingsolver and others are no longer oppressed – they dominate book sales The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2023
Daily Mirror · Jun 18, 2023 Stacey Solomon's sister Jemma reveals secret battle with anxiety and death fears Stacey Solomon's big sister, Jemma, opens up about how she became The Label Lady and started her own bespoke business while also battling severe anxiety
The National (Scotland) · Jun 18, 2023 Psychonauts: the Scots who were at the forefront of drug discovery I PAUSE reading this book and hear a voice in my head with a Kelvinside accent saying: “A half an hour
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 Ashleigh Nugent: ‘Black stories were always about London’ The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 Writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths: ‘There’s a strength you don’t realise you have access to’ The novelist on inheriting her mother’s ferocity, gun violence in the US and the attack on her husband, Salman Rushdie, last year
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 From Cornish pasties to Slovenian potica, food is a language that everyone understands What we eat defines us as a nation but it also crosses borders and, like Esperanto, helps us communicate globally
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 Do you remember the first time? Jonathan Coe, Róisín Murphy and more on their artistic debuts What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all
The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2023 Prince Harry recalled ‘yawning silence’ that followed Meghan Markle’s joke after first Trooping the Colour Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended their first Trooping the Colour together in 2018, but are not at this year’s celebration
The Independent UK · Jun 17, 2023 Just because men are in the minority in fiction, it doesn’t mean we should scrap the Women’s Prize Barbara Kingsolver took home the prestigious award this week for her novel ‘Demon Copperhead’. With women accounting for nearly 80 per cent of book sales across the UK and North America, hasn’t the Women’s Prize already served its purpose? Yes, writes Claire Allfree... but there’s more to it
The Guardian - US · Jun 17, 2023 Dictatorship? How Hitler, Stalin and Trump show it’s easier than you think Andrea Chalupa discusses her graphic novel, co-authored with Sarah Kendzior, about authoritarianism and its dangers
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 Intelligence service career informs former MI5 and MI6 man’s novel David Bickford describes his posting to Berlin in 1979 and says his second book, Katya, draws on his experiences
The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023 When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar review – a poetic tale of familial grief The emotional journey of three orphaned Muslim American siblings is evoked with heart-rending precision