‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood | Mark Haddon

‘To say I was the favourite would imply I was liked’: Mark Haddon on a loveless childhood | Mark Haddon

When I see washed-out photographs of English life in the 60s and 70s – cardiganed grandmothers eating roadside picnics beside Morris Minors, pale men sunbathing in shoes and socks on stripy deckchairs,... Read more »
All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize-winning monologue | Audiobooks

All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles review – a deliciously sweary, prize-winning monologue | Audiobooks

Some books feel so suited to the audio format that they could have been written with the voice in mind. All My Precious Madness is one of those. Mark Bowles’s debut novel,... Read more »
Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82 | Movies

Mark Peploe, Oscar-winning scriptwriter of The Last Emperor, dies aged 82 | Movies

Mark Peploe, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who collaborated with some of the greatest names in European film-making including Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, has died aged 82. Peploe’s family told the Guardian he... Read more »
Hundreds of events mark five years since Covid-19 outbreak | Coronavirus

Hundreds of events mark five years since Covid-19 outbreak | Coronavirus

Bereaved families and communities came together in a day of reflection on Sunday to mark five years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Towns and cities across England, Wales, Scotland and... Read more »
Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michael Rosen and other creatives urge government | Artificial intelligence (AI)

Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen ­copyright rules, some of the UK’s leading cultural figures have said.... Read more »
Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut to get Wolf Hall made, director tells MPs | Wolf Hall

Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut to get Wolf Hall made, director tells MPs | Wolf Hall

Mark Rylance took a “significant” pay cut along with other members of the Wolf Hall team to get the second series made, the director Peter Kosminsky has said. The BBC drama, based... Read more »
Hundreds of events mark five years since Covid-19 outbreak | Coronavirus

Mark Milley fears being court-martialed if Trump wins, Woodward book says | Donald Trump

Mark Milley, a retired US army general who was chair of the joint chiefs of staff under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, fears being recalled to uniform and court-martialed should Trump defeat... Read more »
Mark Rylance took ‘significant’ pay cut to get Wolf Hall made, director tells MPs | Wolf Hall

Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps | Netherlands

On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans prison, past the “secret annexe” where she had hidden from the Nazis, on the start of a journey to her... Read more »
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