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The education committee also proposed a National Reading Guarantee, ensuring all children have frequent opportunities to enjoy reading
The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded.
The government should also commit to a National Reading Guarantee that would e...
Two women meet on a train and tumble into an all-consuming affair told from both sides – who have very different stories
I’ve been craving a sandwich: soft white roll, roast chicken, sharp cheese. A bright little cut of tomato. After I finish this review I’ll walk up to the supermarket and buy myself a hot chook. Sink my teeth in.
It wasn’t my idea. I caught the ...
May We Feed the King, about a museum curator and a medieval monarch, was praised by judges for its ‘crisp, cool prose’ and ‘poet’s eye for detail’
Author and poet Rebecca Perry has won the 2026 Waterstones debut fiction prize for May We Feed the King, praised as a “delicious and dream-like tale”.
Chosen from a shortlist of six novels, May We Feed the King follows ...
Actor Russell Tovey’s narration crackles with compassion and menace in this magical story of a widower and his young sons in mourning
Less than a week after the sudden death of his wife, a grieving man opens his front door to a giant crow who scoops him up into his wing and tells him: “I won’t leave until you don’t need me anymore.” Still in shock, the man is facing the...
Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the ancient Greek epic has sparked a new appetite for an old classic. Here are the translations, podcasts and audiobooks that make the Homeric world more approachable
The Odyssey was once all Greek to me. I struggled to keep up with the characters, the mass of heroes and villains, the swarms of sons and daughters. I found the Homer...