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Authors threaten boycott of Edinburgh book festival over sponsors’ fossil fuel links

An open letter signed by more than 50 authors including Zadie Smith, Ali Smith and Katherine Rundell calls for investment firm Baillie Gifford to be dropped as main sponsor for 2024

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The last word on: Hope

Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness

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‘I became Billy No-Mates’: a disabled magistrate in an inaccessible court

A magistrate for nearly 30 years, David Rose describes the feeling of exclusion after not being able to enter certain legal buildings

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‘What the hell went wrong?’: bereaved hope for answers as Covid inquiry begins

Four people who lost loved ones recall the chaos of the response – and share why they think Britain was so unprepared

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Guy Gunaratne: ‘Writing the Abu Ghraib bit of the book took its toll’

Booker-longlisted in 2018 for their debut novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, the Londoner talks about the follow-up, the slippery life story of a terror suspect, and the fellowship of Ali Smith during a time of stress

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‘A nice nostalgic British feel’: Norfolk’s King Charles III pub raises glass to new monarch

Sporle pub, which opened after a renovation under its new name in January, hopes to get a visit from its namesake

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Greens hoping ultra-local focus will bring low-key revolution in Suffolk

Mid Suffolk will become first majority-controlled Green council in UK if party wins at least five more seats

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10 of the best – and most unexpected – erotic books

From Mary Wesley’s throuples to James Baldwin’s heartbreak in Paris, writers have long been obsessed by ‘the most sought-after and least examined emotion’. Here Lucy Knight picks her top 10

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A landlord king: Charles lets out homes near Sandringham worth £75m

Analysis of property titles reveals extraordinary extent of royal footprint in north Norfolk

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A walk on Norfolk’s Boudicca Way to a classic village pub: The Crown Inn

A stroll from Diss to idyllic Pulham Market takes in quiet countryside and passes a clutch of ancient churches

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Dining across the divide: ‘I think she felt the Labour activists were dogmatic, a bit intimidating. That made me cross’

They both voted Labour until recently, when one joined the Conservative party. Would they find common ground on small boats, benefits or Brexit?

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This VIC TikToker’s Subway Order Has Gone Hyper Viral For Being The Most ‘Elite’ Combo

"It's a game changer."

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‘Money is a constant worry and it’s infecting everything’: one family’s experience of the soaring UK cost of living

With food prices increasing at their fastest rate in 45 years, we hear how one family is coping with the financial pressure

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‘Being heard is better than being seen’: supermodel Paulina Porizkova on living ‘unfiltered’

Paulina Porizkova, one of the great supermodels of the 80s, has refound fame – as ‘the lady who cries on Instagram’. It began with the death of and betrayal by her husband of 30 years

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‘My parents weren’t impressed at first, but now I do my mum’: meet some of the world’s best tattoo artists

Tattooing is constantly evolving and the most-sought after artists are superstars. Here, five of the best reveal what the craft means to them

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'I went on a Halloween ghost hunt at a haunted Scottish mansion - and spooky things happened'

Ahead of Halloween, Sean Murphy joined the Scottish Ghost Company on one of their regular events around the country and it was stranger and more intriguing than he could have imagined.

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Goldsmiths prize shortlist features a first: twin-authored novel Diego Garcia

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’ ‘extraordinary’ work sits alongside a field of creatively ambitious writing that finds new ways of telling stories

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‘A masterpiece’: why Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book is as relevant as ever at 50

She might be better known as the creator of the Moomins but the Finnish author’s tender hymn to nature and tolerance is as relevant today as it was a half-century ago

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Rathbones Folio prize ‘refreshing format’ to expand to three categories

Winners for fiction, nonfiction and poetry will each receive £2,000 and then compete for the overall £30,000 award

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Orwell Festival: The books to help you understand politics chosen by Dominic Cummings, Rebecca Solnit and more

Top thinkers appearing at the festival have picked out the best of political writing that might just make things seem a bit less mad

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Books by women that every man should read: chosen by Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Richard Curtis and more

Studies show men avoid female authors. Ahead of the Women’s prize for fiction, chair of judges Mary Ann Sieghart finds out why – and we ask male authors to redress the balance

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Emma Smith: ‘Books do extraordinary work, but we can overstate their importance’

The Shakespeare critic and author on her new history of books and readers, and how it’s made her think about the contents of our shelves

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Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – a lockdown story of wayward genius

Lyrical visions alternate with fables and farce, history with Covid, in the scheme-busting fifth part of Smith’s seasonal quartet

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Companion Piece by Ali Smith review – scintillating tales across the centuries

Parallels are drawn between our age and the time of the Black Death in this beautiful, mysterious novel

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‘I planted seeds’: Timothée Chalamet’s mother on her children’s success

Nicole Flender talks attending New York’s fame school; living in Manhattan Plaza and supporting her children’s careers

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