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It started as a plan to help her customers, but soon stationery shop owner Rebecca McMillan, 34, from Cheltenham, realised she’d hit on something far bigger than she could ever have realised…

Discover which four paperbacks have earned a place in our Good Books April Collection, picked by our panel

For more than a decade, social media ruled my life, says Sathnam Sanghera: it helped with my work, gave me an instant group of witty friends, and made me feel at the centre of things. But its attractions are wearing thin – and I’m not the only one feeling this

“A deluge of printed matter pours over the world”, F. R. Leavis proclaimed in his doctoral thesis of 1924. An excess of low-quality verbiage, in the view of this young literary scholar, was doing harm

Were Julie and Cheryl about to begin new chapters in their lives?

If you’re spending time away from your partner, what’s the best way to communicate? Email, phone, postcard? Our columnist tries them all – not always with success