The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review – virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s final year | Fiction

The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review – virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s final year | Fiction

Set in the early 1960s, The Daffodil Days tells the story of a couple who move from London to the countryside, have a second child and attempt to settle there, but then,... Read more »
Lyra’s last story – exclusive extract from Philip Pullman’s final instalment in The Book of Dust trilogy | Fiction

Lyra’s last story – exclusive extract from Philip Pullman’s final instalment in The Book of Dust trilogy | Fiction

Michael Sheen narrates The Rose Field Sorry your browser does not support audio – but you can download here and listen $https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/10/15/The_Guardian_Extract.mp3 She washed herself as well as she could in the... Read more »
The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published | Charlie Chaplin

The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published | Charlie Chaplin

He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema’s first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces. Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished... Read more »
Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next | Politics books

Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next | Politics books

In August 2021, Britain’s last ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, climbed on to a table holding a kitchen knife. He and a member of his security team had a small but... Read more »
Private Rites by Julia Armfield review – familial conflict before the final days | Fiction

Private Rites by Julia Armfield review – familial conflict before the final days | Fiction

In Julia Armfield’s third book the effects of the climate crisis are felt daily. The city in which sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes live has been transformed by endless rain – and... Read more »
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