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Conversations about the weather are rarely actually about the weather. As the social anthropologist Kate Fox writes in her brilliant and often snort-inducing book, Watching the English, weather chat is in fact “a form of code, evolved to help us overcome our natural reserve and actually talk to each other.”…

"The hope is that this book reaches many and can support those with achieving and maintaining optimum mental wealth and wellbeing."

The lowdown on some of the most cheering stories this week

The Ferryman by Justin Cronin; More Perfect by Temi Oh; Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway; Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward; Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill

As musicians prepare for the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, entries for its literary counterpart have been announced

A tale of two cities.

Labour leader to co-operate with biography instead

The elegant event saw the best voices in food and drink come together to recognise outstanding achievement

Writer Arinze Ifeakandu was announced as the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2023 for his debut book 'God’s Children Are Little Broken Things' at a ceremony in London on May 11, 2023.

Harry will ‘come limping home’ when marriage ‘ends in tears’ says diarist and former minister Chris Mullin

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…