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The best new books you’ll love

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt was my recent holiday read, and I loved it. It tells the story of lonely widow Tova, whose teenage son vanished 30 years ago. She works at a small aquari

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

TESS was completely disorientated when she woke up. Her eyes flickered open and she found herself facing an unfamiliar pale green wall. The room, wherever it was, held a faint hint of the new wallpape

it’s a funny old world

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