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How to read the classics in an age of distraction – and 3 short books to get you going

Over the past 15 years, I have witnessed university students’ shrinking patience for reading – especially for reading “long” books. Increasingly, students also opt for audiobooks. While speeding up the reading experience, these fundamentally change what is noticed.

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Best books about London: Tales that capture the essence of the world's best city

From the satirical to the sublime, these books are simply, quintessentially, London

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Clare Chambers: ‘Iris Murdoch taught me that a novel could be about absolutely anything’

The author on Anthony Trollope, Andrew Miller, and why she sided with 19th-century coal miners

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11 Summertime Books to Read When You're Not Feeling Very Sunny

Feeling the summer bummer malaise? No problem.

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Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s timeless novel is a work of pandemic fiction

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, set on a June day in 1923, is unusual in that its two protagonists – society hostess Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith – never meet.

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A century of Clarissa: Why Mrs Dalloway will forever fascinate us

THE READING LIST: As Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel turns 100, Katie Rosseinsky speaks to experts about how this dazzlingly experimental work still has readers and writers under its spell

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Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

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Friday essay: Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at this!). Part of me wishes I could enjoy with her this moment…

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Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

The Guardian - UK

A wealthy housewife longs to go wild, in a brilliant riff on Virginia Woolf

A storm is brewing, both literal and metaphoric, in “the suburbs of the east”. In a burst of poetic and darkly humorous prose, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead unleashes the turbulent interior life of its protagonist, Winona Dalloway, onto the page.

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Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

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Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her novels prove

The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing Bee champion. Now in its ninth series, the backstories of this year’s contestants show how sewing often provides an intimate, material connection…

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Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece

The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf

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In Daisy & Woolf, Michelle Cahill revisits a modernist classic to write a story of her own

Michelle Cahill’s Daisy Woolf takes its epigraph and its inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929): “A woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

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Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine review – a tale of two lives

Set over one day in Dublin, this gentle, empathetic debut explores love and loss through the stories of two women

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