‘ Knives Out meets Thursday Murder Club ’

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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Mary Pargeter was starting to feel her age. When did she first attend the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Greenwood House? A quarter of a century, and she was retired even then. Had she loc

The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson ‘Delicious festive crime’