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Where to start with: Elizabeth Strout

A guide to the Pulitzer-winning novelist’s tales of small-town life, family secrets, and fraught relationships

The Guardian - UK

Women’s prize for fiction 2025: six experts review the shortlisted novels

From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on June 12.

The Conversation

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – characters that never grow old

Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton return, the former now in a retirement community, in the author’s understated but hugely rewarding study of small-town life

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Scottish Tory depute provost apologises for calling children 'feral'

A SCOTTISH Tory depute provost has made a public apology for describing children as “feral” during a recent council meeting.

The National (Scotland)

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout review – when Olive Kitteridge met Lucy Barton

The worlds of Strout’s previous books converge in this quietly stunning novel of interlocking stories

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Strout: ‘All ordinary people are extraordinary’

The Pulitzer prize winner on uniting Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton in her new novel, her unfathomable dreams, and how she went from ‘blabbermouth’ to writer

The Guardian - UK

North Lanarkshire's deputy provost and wife celebrate diamond wedding in style

Councillor Bob Burgess and his wife Jean welcomed the local authority’s provost Kenneth Duffy and Lanarkshire Lord Lieutenant Lady Susan Haughey into their home in Wishaw.

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New North Lanarkshire Provost and Depute speak of their pride at new roles

Labour's Kenneth Duffy was elected as Provost while Bob Burgess of the Scottish Conservatives was elected as Depute Provost.

Daily Record

North Lanarkshire Council installs Labour provost and Tory depute

The votes completed the switch of control from the SNP and saw another councillor vote against her party

Daily Record

Wishaw fly-tipping becoming a real issue according to community council

Local councillors are working to get more done to combat the problem.

Daily Record

North Lanarkshire Council Election: Motherwell, Wishaw and Shotts analysis

The area's results see nine new members joining the local authority for the first time.

Daily Record

Conservatives succeed in gaining support for greater police presence in North Lanarkshire school campuses

The motion, presented at the final meeting of the council’s term, was presented by Councillors Bob Burgess and Colin Cameron

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