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Adolescence writer and producer Jack Thorne is behind the first TV adaptation of William Golding’s beloved novel

Michelle de Kretser has won the fiction prize in the 2025 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. It’s her second major prize this year for her ambitious, experimental novel Theory and Practice, which won the 2025 Stella Prize (and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin).

From being friends with a Spice Girl to meeting her husband at work — here is everything you need to know about Keeley Hawes.

4/5 Like life and politics, Shaan Sahota’s play is messy, but it’s also a bracingly vibrant debut

No quality of life.

Driveway games helped spark his competitiveness.

Cults are intriguing. The word conjures images of followers with glazed eyes entranced by an extravagant narcissist. Cults also invite curious readers: truth-seekers eager to discover what magnetism draws followers into the orbit of their leader, and voyeurs keen to peer through windows in the hope of witnessing something crazy.

German Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlaender, who has died at the age of 103, won plaudits at home and abroad for her tireless efforts to foster reconciliation and understanding.

Margot Friedländer, a German Jew who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp and became a high-profile witness to Nazi persecution in her final years, has died in Berlin