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Phaedra review – Simon Stone’s reimagining flitters from tragedy to comedy

Janet McTeer plays a politician who falls for her dead lover’s son, but even her strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia Plath's famous collection Ariel is far darker than she envisaged

“Love” is the first word in Ariel, the collection of poems published by Faber and Faber in 1965 that made Sylvia Plath one of the most famous poets of the post-war generation.

The Conversation

Our weekend arts and culture picks, from The Tempest to the Brit Awards

The Independent’s team of critics and editors select the best cultural things to do over the weekend

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Mother’s Boy by Patrick Gale review – imagining Charles Causley’s life

This fictionalised biography of the Cornish poet covers his tender bond with his mother, and the effects of losing a friend during war

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

Hopeland by Ian McDonald; Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera; Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress; Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

The Guardian - UK

Villagers become heroes of their own stories in new comic

Kirknewton Story will be on display at the Howden Park Centre in Livingston until April 9

Daily Record

Christopher Ligota obituary

Other lives: Academic and librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London, who made a substantial contribution to the field of historiography

The Guardian - UK

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Ned Beauman: ‘After reading Terry Pratchett, it feels like something is missing from most fiction’

The novelist on his lifelong love of William Gibson, discovering Norman Lewis and making peace with Austen

The Guardian - UK

Two Sisters by Blake Morrison review – a family story comes full circle

In his third and most revealing memoir, the author focuses on his troubled younger sister, Gill

The Guardian - UK

Elixir by Kapka Kassabov review – vale of enchantment

A spellbinding journey through the villages, valleys and folk wisdom of the author’s native Bulgaria

The Guardian - UK

Prince Harry has 'no regrets' about the bombshell revelations in debut memoir

Harry is said to be 'relieved to have got his story out into the world' via his tell-all memoir and thinks there has been 'an amazing reaction to it'

Daily Mirror

Mike Pompeo, on national book tour, returns to Kansas. Is there a road to the presidency?

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been a Baskin Robbins manager, the top of his class at West Point, an Army officer, a lawyer, an entrepreneur and a Kansas congressman. He’s directed the nation’s spies and sat down with dictators like Kim Jong-Un.

Tribune News Service

Dave Franco’s rom-com is a family affair

In time for Valentine’s Day, Franco teams up with Brie again for rom-com “Somebody I Used to Know” on Prime Video

Salon

Older woman who took Harry's virginity says their sexual encounter 'crossed the line'

Sasha Walpole has identified her as 'the older woman' Prince Harry described in his memoir when recalling losing his virginity and remembers thinking how their encounter 'crossed a line' over 20 years ago

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Daily Record

Prince Harry's 'older lover' not happy she wasn't approached before 'book sex story'

Sasha Walpole says she had sex with Harry at a pub in Wiltshire back in 2001, but has now decided to do a sit down interview with Piers Morgan amid speculation.

Tribune News Service

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 4, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2023 NPD Group.

The Independent UK

Junior doctor awarded Stormzy’s #Merky Books New Writer’s Prize

The prize aims to bring attention to unpublished and under represented writers between the ages of 16 and 30.

The Independent UK

Appeals court will hear dispute over control of van Gogh art

A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a dispute over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that was recently displayed for months at a Detroit museum

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Eleanor Catton: 'fast, thrilling, insane'

Our second Catton review

The Guardian - AU

Higher Education by Kira McPherson review – post-millennial malaise novel falls flat

A coming of age campus novel tackling class, sex and power, McPherson’s debut promises a lot to chew on – but it’s all a little too dry

The Independent UK

Vatican touts new memoir by Benedict XVI's 2nd secretary

Retired Pope Benedict XVI’s second secretary has come out with a new memoir

The Guardian - US

Mitt Romney to mull Republicans’ ‘slide toward authoritarianism’ in biography

Biographer of Utah senator and former presidential nominee ‘astonished by his level of candor’ in cooperating with new book

The Independent UK

Marriage certificate signed by Lord Nelson fetches £20,000 at auction

He and his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton signed the document in 1799, at a wedding held on board his ship HMS Foudroyant.

The Guardian - UK

The Beekeeper of Aleppo review – harrowing refugee tale reaches the stage

Christy Lefteri’s novel is an account of a perilous journey from Syria to England that, despite renewed poignancy, makes for an uneven drama

Axios

Mitt Romney reveals hundreds of private emails to book author

This volume of disclosure is unheard of for a major sitting officeholder.

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