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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.

Her groundbreaking book ‘Matrescence’, a study of the transition into motherhood, has won Lucy Jones plaudits and an army of dedicated readers. But she could never have written it all without Rachel Cusk’s unflinching 2001 parenting memoir, ‘A Life’s Work’ – a book that was met with frenzied outrage upon…

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.

Looking for Bank Holiday entertainment that includes your love for gardens? The Garden Museum and Belgravia in Bloom have you covered

The novelist and memoirist on stamina and solitude, the influence of surrealist art on her work, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s revelatory travel writing

Morton Feldman’s 1971 work and three responses to it made for a fascinating concert

This tightly plotted story shows a woman on the brink, and doesn’t make much room for anything else

This lively, accessible insight into four female writers in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores the complex political, patriarchal and religious backdrop to their lives

Three writers’ pastoral years are beautifully observed in this group biography but seem little more than tangential to their work

The author’s second novel considers a gay teacher’s struggles with intimacy and heritage

Insomnia fueled some of the greatest art women have ever produced, but the darkness can also come with a price