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Kate Middleton had 'heart set' on totally different names for her first child - including one she never used

The Princess of Wales reportedly had a boy’s and a girl’s name chosen before Prince George was born

Woman & Home

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pore over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway

The Guardian - UK

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Relationship Had “Soured Beyond Repair” Until Queen Elizabeth Intervened

A new royal biography by Russell Myers reveals how the late Queen potentially changed the course of the monarchy.

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‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel

Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring

The Guardian - UK

Social media platforms are only as good as the people who run them

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Frances Ryan on whether it is ethical to use social media apps, given they can be rife with toxic rhetoric

The Guardian - UK

Kate Middleton gave Prince William 'ultimatum' before brief break-up after having 'nothing to lose'

According to a new royal biography this moment marked a changing point in their relationship

Woman & Home

‘It works on its own terms’: Literary experts give verdict on Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s new ‘Wuthering Heights’ sparked a familiar fight about book adaptations, but some Brontë experts say it still works

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Queen Camilla’s Tea Time Secrets Revealed As She Adds More Books to Her TBR Pile

The independent bookshop spoke of their “delightful chat about why our books are so wonderful.”

Marie Claire

‘Bored by all the sex and violins’: readers on Wuthering Heights film

Reaction to Emerald Fennell’s movie adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

The Guardian - UK

15 Years Ago, The Worst Young Adult Sci-Fi Movie Saw The Cynical Future

Who says you need passion to be a storyteller?

Inverse

Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’

Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestry

The Guardian - UK

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova review – a poetic exploration of Russian guilt

Written from exile after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this autofictional blend of memory and fable tracks a changing sense of self

The Guardian - UK

I read 95 books last year – here’s how I managed it

FIRST PERSON: Trying to stick to your resolution of reading more in 2026? From picking tomes to match your mood to planning your to-read list, Katie Rosseinsky has some advice on how to boost your book power

The Independent UK

Rape victim Pelicot recounts tale of survival, resilience in 'hopeful' memoirs

French woman Gisèle Pelicot, a survivor of mass rapes organised by her husband, reveals her trauma and resilience in her memoirs released on Tuesday in France and translated into more than 22 languages.

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Kamala Harris Is the Latest VIP Traveler to Give a Goyard Saint Louis Bag the Carry-On Treatment

It now has endorsements from a Vice President, an Oscar winner, and more.

Marie Claire

Queen Elizabeth Advised Princess Kate on "How to Deal With Headstrong Husbands" in Meeting Before Royal Wedding, Per New Book

The future Princess of Wales was "understandably nervous" for her first solo meeting with Prince William's grandmother.

The Independent UK

Spanish Oranges, review – Searing study of a celebrity marriage upended by scandal is mightily enjoyable

4/5 Emotional bombs detonate in this confident first play from novelist Alba Arikha

Woman & Home

'Extraordinary purpose can come out of extraordinary suffering' – Emma Thompson lends her voice to Gisèle Pelicot’s courageous story

Dame Emma Thompson hails the 'defiance' of Gisèle as she lends her support in the best way possible

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The Independent UK

The four new audiobook releases I’m recommending to everyone

From Gisèle Pelicot's memoir, read by Emma Thompson, to a novel about Cleopatra, read by Adjoa Andoh, these new Audible releases are must-listens

The Independent UK

Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir launches in 22 languages, turning horror into hope for survivors

Gisèle Pelicot has released a memoir that recounts her drugging and mass rape case and sends a powerful message of hope and support to victims of sexual abuse

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong

By turning the novel into just a corset-heaving love story, the director has stripped it of what made it so boundary-pushing, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

Our Better Natures by Sophie Ward review – reimagining Andrea Dworkin

Three women, two real and one fictional, seek social justice in an ambitious novel that explores power in 1970s America

The Independent UK

‘Everyone needs to see the faces of the rapists’: Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir reveals moment she went for public trial

Tara Cobham looks at Pelicot’s narrative ‘A Hymn to Life’, which details her ordeal in France’s most shocking mass rape case

The Guardian - UK

A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own

The Independent UK

The Damascus book fair draws crowds, with censorship eased in post-Assad Syria

Damascus is hosting its first international book fair since Bashar Assad fell, and publishers say censorship has almost disappeared

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