Author and Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett picks out the reads that will help get your pulse racing

WHEN LILY ALLEN RETURNED WITH WEST END GIRL , HER FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM, THE WORLD COULD TALK ABOUT NOTHING ELSE. THE OPEN MARRIAGE, THE DOJO, MADELINE! NOW, IN THE WAKE OF HER MOST SUCCESSFUL RELEASE YET, SHE INVITES LOTTE JEFFS OVER FOR TEA TO DISCUSS HOW IT CHANGED HER FOR THE BETTER

IT MAY BE 2026, BUT MANY HARD-WON RIGHTS FOR WOMEN ARE UNDER THREAT. WE ASK GROUNDBREAKING ACTIVISTS, STORYTELLERS AND A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER HOW TO MAINTAIN HOPE AND EFFECT CHANGE, EVEN WHEN THE WAY FORWARD IS UNCLEAR

Sitting in a restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in September 2022, Lisa, then 50, and I looked like old friends having a catch-up. In fact, we’d met for the first time that day, two grieving mums disc

Q My fiancé is wonderful, the sex is amazing and we kiss and cuddle lots indoors. But when we’re out, he never even touches me – he says he doesn’t want other people watching us make out. I’ve tried s

It might have happened 10,000 miles away, but Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s has sparked new conversations in the UK about how we can better protect children from the harms of the inter