‘writing feels like oxygen for me’

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Best-selling author and House of Games presenter Richard Osman reveals how his mother dealt with grief, how he manages to write so much with a debilitating eye condition and why his latest Thursday Murder Club mystery made his wife cry

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Since the death of her partner, Rayya, in 2018, Elizabeth Gilbert has been on an extraordinary journey with grief and addiction. In her new memoir, she spares no-one, least of all herself, as she tells Christobel Hastings

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