Five books to read this summer, which were released in 2024.
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From stories of Irish mothers to Shakespearean actors in the West Bank, this year’s shortlist is as varied as ever.
A classic Nicholls tale of unlikely lovers finding each other but with a post-pandemic twist.
If you fell in love with Dexter and Emma you are sure to do the same with the characters in these funny and moving tales of love.
We have an innate desire to be reminded of darkness and mortality during the festive season.
Here’s to the good/bad women leading the world of fiction.
Forget challenges, adults should be taking a leaf out of children’s books when it comes to their reading habits.
La nouvelle adaptation de la pièce culte de Shakespeare unit Michael Fassbender et Marion Cotillard dans lente et macabre chute.
The latest version of Macbeth is stunningly cinematic and vehemently Scottish.
It’s summer, which means that the inevitable annual scrum to read the newest and hottest book on the block has begun. How exhausting.
Success as a screenwriter takes as much tenacity as talent.
The runaway success of Ali Smith’s How to be Both signals a new and original approach to 21st-century historical fiction.
We’ve lost a lot of libraries and a lot of books since 2010. The UK can’t face any more cuts.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood has beaten off the competition to scoop the Best Picture Award at this year’s Baftas. Filmed in sections over 12 years, Boyhood is in some ways the ultimate cinematic take on…
In 1937 a fairy tale about a reluctant hero with hairy feet was published by a tweedy English academic called JRR Tolkien. The Hobbit was an instant success – and its mighty sequel The Lord of the Rings…
Sexual intercourse is getting on a bit. Not only has it been boosting the human population since we emerged from the primordial swamp, it’s more than half a century since Philip Larkin noted its arrival…
We live in a culture obsessed with speed: fast-food, Twitter, overnight celebrity, instant make-overs and cutting edge techno-gadgets. We drive too fast, desperate to get ahead literally as well as metaphorically…
I don’t often re-read books, partly because there are so many on my unread pile. There are just a few that I go back to over and over again: Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, The Bell Jar – and Lucky Jim…
Given the extent of the brouhaha that has surrounded Shakespeare’s big 450, it’s worth remembering that we’re marking the anniversary of the birth of an enigma. Records do show that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon…
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