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Best films of 2025 in the UK so far

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of their UK release date

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TV tonight: Paris Lees’ captivating millennial coming-of-age drama

Byron is a working-class teenager desperate for a different life. Plus: a great art series continues with Lubaina Himid. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Mountainhead to See How They Run: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Jesse Armstrong’s hilariously awkward tech bro satire sees Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman plot world domination, while a starry, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit is tons of fun

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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great

The dizzy highs and bitter lows of the late writer’s life are laid bare in Sinéad O’Shea’s moving documentary

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From Sinners to Étoile: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Michael B Jordan faces down evil in a prohibition-era southern horror, and Charlotte Gainsbourg pliés into a fun new ballet comedy-drama

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‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien

Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring

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Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’

The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien

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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – engaging study of a life less ordinary

One of Ireland’s most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinéad O’Shea’s thoroughly enjoyable documentary

The Guardian - UK

You and I are gonna live forever: why 2024’s pop was all about sharing the moment

Pop may be full of solo artists and individually tailored streams, but the Eras tour, Brat summer and Oasis reunion showed we still long to be part of a crowd

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Shattered nation: inside the 9 August Guardian Weekly

What led to the riots in England? Plus: saving Ukraine’s heritage

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‘She did not suffer a fool or hypocrite and loved a good laugh’: novelist Edna O’Brien

An email correspondence about Bosnian Serb war criminal Radovan Karadžić led to Ed Vulliamy’s unexpected bond with the Irish author, who died last week aged 93

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Edna O’Brien in her own words – archive, 1962

20 November 1962: The writer talks to Denis Hart about leaving County Clare for London, debut novel The Country Girls, and her new play

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My encounter with Edna O’Brien, the great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature

The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her trailblazing career. Lynn Enright remembers the profound personal impact of her debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ – banned in…

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Edna O’Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote 'The Country Girls,' dies at 93

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93

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OPINION - Edna O’Brien was an Irish great — and a Londoner

The opening sentence of Girl, Edna O’Brien’s last novel is, I think, unforgettable: “I was a girl once, but not any more...” And from there O’Brien, who died on Saturday, takes the reader into the unimaginable horror of the abduction and rape of the Chibok schoolgirls by the Islamist group,…

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‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more

The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction

The Guardian - UK

Edna O’Brien obituary

Novelist who scandalised her native Ireland with The Country Girls, and explored the lives of women who love and suffer

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Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

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Groundbreaking Irish Writer Edna O'Brien Dead At 93

Tributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O'Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel "The Country Girls" was burned and banned in her native country, after her death at 93.

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Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

After early novels that won international acclaim but were banned at home, the Irish author had a prolific career lasting more than half a century

The Guardian - UK

Louise Kennedy: ‘I read Wuthering Heights twice and found it demented’

The Irish author on the power of Edna O’Brien, Zola’s lust, and struggling with Emily Brontë

The Guardian - UK

Joyce’s Women review – Edna O’Brien offers a fresh view on her literary hero

O’Brien’s new play about her literary hero, imagining James Joyce through the eyes of the women in his life, is the hot ticket in Dublin

The Guardian - UK

Joyce’s Women review – Edna O’Brien’s powerful play is a fascinating portrait of a fellow writer

O’Brien’s empathy for Joyce shines through in this lavish production, as she brings him to life, seen through the eyes of his mother, wife, daughter and lover

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My mother was a ruthless ditcher of friends – should I dump my most annoying mates?

The novelist Nina Stibbe has watched her mum cast off friends at the drop of a hat. Is it time to follow suit?

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