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Is the end nigh for the Lewis family in Everyone Else Burns? Plus: the Taskmaster champion is crowned. Here’s what to watch this evening

Judges praise the ‘sheer variety of comedy in play’ in nominated books by Nicholls, Dolly Alderton, Caroline O’Donoghue and Kaliane Bradley

Bestselling writer says Lake District sites in new book You Are Here are ‘genuinely all made up’

Novelist, speaking at Hay Festival, explained how some great moments in literature are unadaptable

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

A midlife couple take a hike through the Lake District in this witty and likable crowd-pleaser

£65,000 gift will not restore the full, 10-day occasion but organisers say it will make pop-up events possible

Brief letters: Polluted rivers | Donald Trump’s trial | Women walking alone | John Crace’s return | A better Britain

The One Day author’s new will-they-won’t-they tale, about two divorcees who find themselves walking the Lakes and Pennines, is a great comic novel – and superb on the landscape