25 h. ago Shoppers get £240 off memory foam mattress that 'feels like luxury without the price tag'

'Upgraded my mattress after bad back pain from my last one, best decision ever!'

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29 h. ago Geoff Dyer: ‘I don’t go to books for comfort; I have a memory foam pillow for that’

The author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth TaylorMy earliest reading memory Beatrix Potter when I was having my tonsils out. No point saying how much I loved her books because everyone does, but Roberto Calasso makes a brilliant point in The Celestial Hunter by pairing “two great moments in the Victorian age” when Darwin “linked human beings to primates” and Potter “distributed human behaviour among a certain number of small domestic and rural animals”.My favourite book growing up The Guns of Navarone. My first Alistair MacLean, the first of about 20 before I grew out of him at the age of 15. They were thrilling and addictive and it was possible, while reading, to visualise every scene so clearly (helped in part by the scene-enacting photos on the covers of the Fontana editions). Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Shoppers say back ache 'is gone' with this 'god send' memory foam mattress, now £230 off

Plus, there's a mystery discount at checkout with a special code

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4 d. ago White Stuff shoppers say memory foam sandals 'don't need breaking in'

Both the black and pink versions of the sandals are still in stock

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1 week ago Homework by Geoff Dyer review – coming of age in 70s England

Dyer conjures conker fights, saturday jobs and teenage rampages as he charts his journey from a two-up two-down in Gloucestershire to OxfordDroll, erudite, digressive, self-deprecating, laid-back rather than standup in his humour – the Geoff Dyer voice is unmistakable. In his new book he says he’s “most at home in the idiom of the ironic switchback, an educationally enhanced version of something that still [comes] under the broad conversational church-pub known as banter”. You can hear the banter in the title of his 2003 book Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It.Banter’s trickier with a childhood memoir. If you were relatively happy growing up, as he was, in Cheltenham, the only child of parents who loved him, and you want to be honest about your upbringing, then you can’t muck about too much. Dyer’s humour has never precluded seriousness – about jazz, film, photographs, paintings, DH Lawrence and much besides. But as the title suggests, Homework i...

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2 w. ago 12 best travel pillows, tested on flights and train journeys

Support your head, shoulders and neck during long-haul flights, road trips and camping holidays

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2 w. ago Best pillows 2025, tried and tested for every type of sleeper

Whether firm or soft, cooling or super thick, the right pillows will help you sleep soundly

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2 w. ago Shoppers snap up Wowcher hot weather heroes from £15 air cooler to £74 garden set

From cordless vacuums to memory foam mattresses, the deals site has some serious homeware steals

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3 w. ago White Stuff shoppers say memory foam sandals that 'don't need breaking in' are 'worth every penny'

"Excellent sandal, really comfortable. I often need to ‘break in’ shoes but not with these! Can’t recommend highly enough, worth every penny."

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3 w. ago Amazon shoppers hail £15 kneeling pad a 'godsend' for preventing aching knees during gardening

The memory foam kneeling pad is designed to keep you comfortable whether in the garden, doing DIY, or when looking after kids playing outdoors and it's on sale for £15

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3 w. ago Amazon's £15 memory foam pad hailed a 'godsend' for aching knees whilst gardening

The memory foam kneeling pad is designed to be a comfortable and practical solution for kneeling on hard surfaces, and has been receiving rave reviews on Amazon

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3 w. ago Memory foam garden kneeling pad 'works wonders' on aching knees

If weeding and tending to your garden is leaving you in pain, this durable mat is a 'godsend'

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