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HAY FESTIVAL 2025: Eight enigmatic authors speak to Annabel Nugent about the singular book to define them as writers and people

A recent study has found a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades. The decline accelerates a longterm trend:

The former president’s family is reviewing treatment options. Plus, record number of attacks on healthcare workers in 2024

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.

As Mrs Dalloway turns 100, here’s a guide to the greatest hits of one of the most celebrated British novelists of all time

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

A series of scattered recollections and reflections form the basis for this intimate, abstract memoir that riffs on human interdependence

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…