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The novelist on her first book set in the world of football, having Rishi Sunak as a fan and the secret to writing good sex

‘It’s like Rachel, Ross, Joey, Phoebe and Monica came to say goodbye to Chandler,’ one fan wrote

Matthew Perry’s ‘Friends’ character brought the world joy and laughter, and mirrored our insecurities and anxieties. But he also made me think about relationships in a different way, writes Ellie Harrison

In any other era, the actor’s magnificently maladroit creation would have been the sidekick. Yet Perry made Chandler Bing the standout Friends character, writing him 10 extra jokes per show

He called himself a just-add-water addict, hooked on painkillers after a jetski accident. In last year’s shockingly frank memoir, detailing ferocious substance abuse and on-set drinking, he seemed resigned to a young death

The hugely versatile actor could be hysterically funny as a flatmate taking a bath – or terrifying as a truth-twisting lawyer. From Friends to The West Wing, we recall his finest moments on screen

Gretchen Shirm’s The Crying Room and Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here share a preoccupation with death and grief and what it means to live on, without intimate others, during a climate crisis. Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who…

It's his first work in seven years, with a protagonist he says has allowed him to process his own life.

A prickly misfit connects nine dark tales in this sad and sharply funny new book from the author of Ghost World