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Women’s prize for fiction: tales of power, agency, ageing and connection – six experts review the shortlist

The Women’s prize for fiction has been awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English since 1996. In its 30th year, it is now one of the most influential literary awards in the world.

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Who are the worst mothers in literature? Our experts weigh in

The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliche, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

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The Great Gatsby party is still raging on the West End

Corbin Bleu and Jamie Muscato on the ever-evolving, always-mysterious, entirely spectacular Gatsby production which marks 100 years of the novel

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Dartford warblers on the Dorset oilfields

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The Great Gatsby at the Coliseum: 'a little empty beneath the razzmattazz'

3/5 The award-winning Broadway musical version of Fitzgerald’s novel hits London as a lavish spectacle but lacking heart

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The Great Gatsby: A New Musical review – what a swell party this ain’t

F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic jazz age novel ought to be a perfect basis for a musical, but no amount of Charlestons from a fine cast can put the fizz into this

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The Great Gatsby at 100: this great American novel is a universal meditation on time and change

One hundred years after its publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel, The Great Gatsby – the story of nouveau riche Jay Gatsby’s obsessive quest to win back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan – is best remembered for its depiction of America’s Jazz Age excess, especially through Gatsby’s wildly extravagant parties.

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The Great Gatsby at 100: the Jazz Age novel that helps explain Trump’s America

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10.

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Book fight: Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting a tell-all book but her publisher is defending the memoir

Sarah Wynn-Williams memoir about her time at the social media giant is creating an uproar.

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Sarah Hyland to star in The Great Gatsby on Broadway

Sarah Hyland will play Daisy Buchanan in a Broadway adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby'.

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This perfume has been a bestseller for 17 years—and I can confirm it *still* delivers unrivalled freshness

It's a classic for a reason

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How to put your phone down and get back into habit of reading books

After an English academic at Oxford complained about students’ attention spans, we get experts’ tips on enjoying the written word

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Gatsby’s Long Island: From Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired F Scott Fitzgerald

As ‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100, Ellie Seymour travelled east from Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that inspired the great American novel

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Five Great Reads: Charli xcx and the Brat era, treating ADHD, and is there a ‘right’ way to grieve?

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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‘I felt I had no right to grieve’: what happens if your sorrow doesn’t seem appropriate?

When the author Daisy Buchanan lost a series of friends, she felt bereft – yet also that her feelings were misplaced. Here, she explores the notion of ‘disenfranchised grief’ – and learns how to let her sorrow in

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Best podcasts of the week: The wannabe sleuths who believe Avril Lavigne was ‘replaced’ by an imposter

In this week’s newsletter: Comedian Joanne McNally explores one of the most bizarre celebrity conspiracy theories in a new BBC series. Plus: five of the best books podcasts

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Top 10 summer love stories

With holidays, light evenings and heat, it is a season that goes naturally with romance, as authors from F Scott Fitzgerald to Maggie O’Farrell show

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Has social media ruined reading?

From cute colour-coded #shelfies to competitive reading challenges, have books become more about online performance than quiet pleasure?

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He gave me a battered copy of a book I already owned, and I felt I’d come home – the Christmas present I’ll never forget

Afters years of expectation, hope and disappointment, all it took was one simple, heartfelt gift to show me he was the one

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Through its rambling millionaires, The Great Gatsby satirises racist ideology

Letter: In his 1925 novel, F Scott Fitzgerald is not ‘referencing’ white supremacist ideas but attacking them head-on, writes Richard Ellis

Daily Mirror

'Boris Johnson partied while people died and nurses' faces bore red scars of their PPE'

Ros Wynne Jones says what happened at Downing Street – vomiting, partying till 4am, utter arrogance and hubris – is only a metaphor for what Johnson and the other Buller Boys have done to Britain

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What I wish I’d known about living with an anxiety disorder

When Daisy Buchanan was diagnosed with anxiety in her 20s she finally had a name for what she was feeling, but not the tools to cope. Here’s how she has learned to live with it

The Independent UK

Duchess of Cornwall says it is ‘very much a parent’s job’ to teach reading early

Camilla spoke with The Telegraph’s Daisy Buchanan via video call for her online Reading Room platform.

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