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In Pride and Prejudice (1813), when heroine Elizabeth Bennet arrives at Netherfield Park with “her petticoat six inches deep in mud”, she walks not only through the fields of Hertfordshire, but into one of literature’s most memorable images of women’s independence.

INTERVIEW: As post-Sally Rooney Irish lit is booming, the 32-year-old writer talks to Ellie Harrison about her tale of a group of Belfast women stumbling through life and loss as they wave their twenties goodbye

Warning: this article contains spoilers for all seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Elisabeth Moss’s time as June Osborne is over, but fans have more to look forward to

Karina Ward has been a surrogate for two beloved sets of friends – here she tells us why she gave them the greatest gift

Right-wing pundit Camryn Kinsey was later reported to be conscious after leaving viewers terrified

Season 5 aired quite some time ago, so here's your handy reminder of everything that went down before you tune into season 6 of The Handmaid's Tale

Prolific novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the absurd

Temperatures reach the mid-20s around this time of year

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

The Handmaid's Tale is finishing with season 6, but that's not the end for Gilead. The story is set to continue with spin-off, The Testaments.