The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rollinson review – a gripping tale of family and forbidden love | Fiction

The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rollinson review – a gripping tale of family and forbidden love | Fiction

Andalucía is famous for its variety: high alpine mountains and snow-capped peaks, river plains and rolling olive groves, sun-baked coastlines and arid deserts. It is the perfect setting for Neil Rollinson’s debut... Read more »
The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rollinson review – a gripping tale of family and forbidden love | Fiction

The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann

In a 1924 letter to André Gide, Thomas Mann said he would soon be sending along a copy of his new novel, The Magic Mountain. “But I assure you that I do not in... Read more »
Rage bait, goblin mode … do words of the year have any real value? | Language

Rage bait, goblin mode … do words of the year have any real value? | Language

If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one? Depending on which dictionary you... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 31st

Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, December 31st

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid | Fiction

Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid | Fiction

The second novel by South African author Nadia Davids, winner of the 2024 Caine prize, is set in a “small unnamed city in a colonial empire”, shortly after the end of the first... Read more »
‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana | Books

‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana | Books

Each December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora Nigerians and Ghanaians travel to their ancestral home countries. For many, the draw is the end-of-year party season – better known as “Detty December”, a... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 30th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, December 30th

A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings. Source link Read more »
The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rollinson review – a gripping tale of family and forbidden love | Fiction

The English House by Dan Cruickshank review – if walls could talk | History books

History used to be about wars and dates, but to the architecture writer and TV presenter Dan Cruickshank, it’s more about floors and grates. In his new book, he takes a keen-eyed tour... Read more »
Meera Syal, Gabby Logan and Richard Osman among new year honours in arts and media | New year honours list

Meera Syal, Gabby Logan and Richard Osman among new year honours in arts and media | New year honours list

The creator of some of British television’s most beloved sitcoms, a Match of the Day presenter and a Chuckle Brother are among the figures from the arts and media to be recognised... Read more »
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