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3/5 JK Rowling’s doorstopper proves challenging to adapt for screen, but Strike and Robin’s ‘will they, won’t they’ dynamic remains electric as ever

Lauren Sánchez faced online backlash for her sheer outfit at a bookstore event promoting her children's book, The Fly Who Flew to Space. The post Lauren Sánchez Slammed Over “Inappropriate” See-Through Outfit To Promote Children’s Book first appeared on Bored Panda.

The author will serve as editor-at-large of Monument Books, helping to find authors that champion ‘ideas, stories and culture, as well as uplifting or refashioning past legacies’

At the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on The Devil Wears Prada and a bijou Flaubert caper

The audience sees above and below the floorboards – with a little help from puppets – as Mark Babych’s production cleverly plays with scale

When it comes to horror Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is the man

The Call Me by Your Name director’s overlong William Burroughs adaptation boasts some fine performances, but any gritty realism feels totally manicured

From a boy on a snowy midnight adventure to a gothic family caper via a young offender inspired by poetry, our critics pick their favourite titles of the year

The Dutch city of Deventer has been transformed into a 19th-century English city where 950 people in costumes brought characters from Charles Dickens’ books to life

Sex and the City star says it is ‘the thrill of a life’ to be appointed to 2025 panel alongside Roddy Doyle, Kiley Reid and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ to pick year’s best novel

When General de Gaulle arrived in Paris on 25 August, 1944 to mark the French capital’s liberation from Nazi occupation, his official reporter was by his side to document the historic moment. That reporter was France's first female WWII correspondent, but her name was lost to history – until a…