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Lucy Foley: ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging didn’t talk down to teenage girls’

The crime author on rediscovering Edith Wharton, and the brilliantly twisted author who changed her ideas about writing

The Guardian - UK

"I must have read it about six times" – author Lucy Foley on 5 books that changed her life

With the paperback publication of her latest novel, The Midnight Feast, I asked Lucy Foley to share the books that meant the most to her

Woman & Home

Maisie Smith and The Crown’s Ed McVey to star in The Talented Mr Ripley UK tour

Ed McVey stars as the mysterious Tom Ripley, a role that has been played by Matt Damon and Andrew Scott.

Evening Standard

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First Thing: Democrats ‘too polite’ in fight against fossil fuel giants, says senator

Sheldon Whitehouse was giving his 300th climate speech to the Senate. Plus, the human chain that helped a bookstore relocate

The Guardian - UK

Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure

From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually help us to sleep?

The Guardian - UK

The 10 best audiobooks for summer

To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot

The Guardian - UK

The books we’re packing for summer 2025 holidays, from fantasy to romances

From exciting debuts to classic thrillers, these are the reads deserving of a spot in your suitcase

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Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’

The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats

The Guardian - UK

There’s a deep ugliness and some slippery ethics behind the snail slime beauty boom

If gastropods are lucky, another cheap and unlovable source of age-defying secretions will come along soon

The Guardian - UK

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe by Ian Collins review – village voice

A biography of the bard of rural England reveals an unexpectedly adventurous sex life

The Guardian - UK

10 new TV shows from 2024 that are worth watching before the new year

It could be argued that 2024 wasn’t the best year for TV

The Independent UK

Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín

THE LIST: Transport yourself back to a bygone era with Katie Rosseinsky’s guide to the best historical fiction releases of the year

The Independent UK

Talented Mr Ripley and the Shiralee headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 season

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Happy Days and aged care musical Bloom also on next year’s STC program, which will the last from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams

The Guardian - AU

Alain Delon was an enigmatic anti-hero, and France’s most beautiful male movie star

Alain Delon’s death at the age of 88 brings down the curtain of one of postwar European cinema’s most important film stars.

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Matt Damon says he had ‘trouble’ watching Andrew Scott’s Ripley on Netflix

Actor previously portrayed the con-man opposite Jude Law in 1955

WhatToWatch

As we await news on Ripley season 2, I rewatched The Talented Mr Ripley on Netflix and was struck by key differences

I'm hopeful Netflix will order Ripley season 2, in the meantime I revisited the movie...

The Guardian - UK

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith audiobook review – a compelling classic

Actor David Menkin deftly captures the antihero’s blend of guilelessness and deceit in Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller

Evening Standard

The Amalfi Coast hotspots for literature lovers

An hour’s drive from the grit and grime of Naples lies a glittering stretch of coastline that’s so jaw-droppingly beautiful, it’s served as the setting for many an ancient myth.

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The Guardian - UK

Rule-breaker for the ages: why Caravaggio is our screen age’s art superstar

With his final masterpiece on show in London and his influence all over Ripley with Andrew Scott on Netflix, the troubled painter’s appeal endures

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Netflix's 'Ripley' Faithfully Adapts Highsmith's Novel With Intriguing Twists.

Explore the dark journey of deceit and murder in Netflix's 'Ripley,' a faithful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel with intriguing character and narr...

The Guardian - UK

‘This coast is saturated’: Italian village braces for post-Ripley crowds

Netflix hit series based on Patricia Highsmith novel brings prospect of surge in visitors to Atrani area of Amalfi coast

The Guardian - UK

Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith

Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality

Evening Standard

OPINION - London has a toxic relationship to its super-wealthy overclass: it's love and hate

Comparing notes with a friend from a reunion celebration held at a wealthy family seat. The cascade of inherited wealth to our own generation was all around us: from the watchful staff and non-negotiable rituals, to placements imposed with iron discipline. Aside from the eye-rolling, it produced a host of…

The Guardian - UK

‘Unfurling tension and menace’: how slow TV like Ripley makes for a truly gripping watch

Elegant, luxurious, catlike … Netflix’s Andrew Scott-starring series is devastatingly unhurried – although not all viewers agree

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