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2/5 The Andor actress shines in this ponderous play about a young George Eliot

The aspiration to write a “state-of-the-nation” drama is the great white whale of political writing. Take the work of legendary German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Exiled by Hitler to Scandinavia in 1933, he attempted to capture life in his homeland from anecdotes and verbatim accounts. The result, his state-of-the-nation play Fear…

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Letters: Those looking for inspiration on how to be a better person should look to the novel Middlemarch, writes Andrea Dow, while Bruce Higgins reflects on his rewarding charity work

Throughout my school years I had an exuberant, elderly piano teacher, Miss Hazel. She was one of five daughters (like me) and, like many young women of her generation, had never married her sweetheart because he did not return from the war.

It is probably wrong to touch, even gently, these creatures. But even now I find it difficult to resist

The cemetery is the resting place of George Michael, George Eliot and Douglas Adams as well as Karl Marx

The acclaimed author was halfway through writing a novel when the pandemic hit – forcing him to start over. He discusses the new book, and how he’s continuing to honour his literary heroes

What is The Buccaneers based on and is it a true story? The Apple TV+ period drama brings husband-finding frolics, but is there truth to it?